Name: Why Must I Be This Way by Pastel Mutiny
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: Minimal until it isn't. Tortured until isn't. It's small until it's so big it rattles your soul.

Just Another Loser On The Vine (2014)

Well, it is.

Recorded in 2010 in Minnesota on some lo-fi equipment. The instruments were a Roland Alpha Juno, a Boss D-1 distortion pedal and deez fingers. 

Your Soul Is A Beautiful, Artful Space - demo (2010)

My Little Place in the Dark Tomb of Sonny Crockett's Demonic Soul (DEMO)

Come On Now (Single Edit)

It's dark out there. Keep an eye out. 

Alfie Hughes: Writing, performing, recording, mixing
Shard Hughes: Production, mastering

A Dark Dark Dark Machine

Minimal until it isn't. Tortured until isn't. It's small until it's so big it rattles your soul.

Why Must I Be This Way

This is the main, album version of the song that is also the real single version of the song. Originally recorded in Bushwick in a more 2009 indie-dance arrangement, but that didn't quite work. We liked (like) this one better. 

The song is about trying to deal with a difficult person (among other things). 

King of Temper

Coming soon to all the digital outlets where no one will buy it (but they might stream it). 

Alternating Emotional Victories

This is the 2nd of three remixes I did. I actually submitted the first one to a remix contest, but in retrospect (pardon the pun), this one is better. Damn.

Robert Parker - '85 Again (Feat Miss K) [Forbidden Hues Disco-Pop con Leche AF Remix]

A Dark Machine on the Fritz

Dark Skies

Pastel Mutiny are five sisters: Edith, Jennifer, Grace, Delia, and Lavender Pastel. A band since 2025, but they've been making music together longer. Producer Alfie Hughes often helps them get over the finish line.

Why Must I Be This Way

Pastel Mutiny

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