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The Swells - Golden

Ferocious highs and tranquil lows, a sonic landscape of love and war.

Taken from the album The Front Line, releasing summer 2014.

Beaten Down

Air Formation - Caught Upon the Waves

Life is Easy is the first track from my new live looping album, Life is Easy. Recorded entirely live in my bedroom studio. #livelooping

Watch the live recording of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNfHyFZcfE

Life is Easy is a disturbingly serene look at unhappiness and desolation. 

A collection of nine songs recorded entirely live in State Shirt's bedroom studio—using a technique called live looping—along with an array of obsolete electronics, guitars, and his voice. 

Each song on the album was written and recorded live in one day—often starting out as an improvisation. Gently traveling from weird ambient swells, ghostly harmonies, funereal rhythms, freakish beatboxing, and disconcerting noises, Life is Easy takes you on a mournful march to the darkest corners of hopelessness. 

Life Is Easy

Happy Birthday, Lauren Conrad

First little experiment with my new Eurorack system.  The output from the Eurorack is piped into the external input of a Moog Sub37.  Output from the Moog goes into a MF-104M delay, a MF-105M MIDI MuRF, and a Strymon blueSky reverb.

Wobbling Eurorack

Sinking Jellyfish

Hey, let's escape. We've been friends for years and we don't want the same, and we can't share space, but at least we can agree on a destination and not getting away for getting away's sake. There's no fairytale trip; have you ever slept rough in an airport in Europe? Each coast washes up shit, but if it's a shore I've never seen then I'll endure it. I'm not getting away for getting away's sake. We'll probably get asked if we're selling drugs, and we'll probably get mugged because every tourist does. You've got more money for drinks when the hookers are rough, and by week two we got used to the taste of blood. By week two we got used to the South Beach cops, dress codes, which notes get you a drink or not, which limits got crossed when British kids got shot, and which spirits make peach tea the perfect drop.

peach tea

Leave me the hell alone; I'll be gone before the club's closed. Arrived as sure as the dawn but I'll be leaving a lost soul unless you sit there making fun of a friend I used to know; I will add you to the tally across my knuckles with your teeth. Because I believe in few, but she can lead me to hospital beds, foolish as that may be. We'd leave the car like awkward teens and make it to the kitchen sink. Or we would argue until tears and I would watch you sleep and think 'you are made up of colours, and I am made up of darks, so much weaker than this galaxy and the rhythms at it's heart'. I believe in few, but she can lead me to hospital beds, foolish as that may be. And I believe in few, but we would be top of my list, if I was one to wish.

wish list

I Won't Back Down

Big thanks to "osip32", who captured this track from Prague's Radio 1 back in 1993 and originally shared via youtube. The artwork is taken from Rock&Pop mag (black and white). Very minor sound adjustments made with sony soundforge.

peach tea

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