Mar. 2024

Track 4/4 of the Mr. Bill Remixes EP.
Go see how I created this track: https://youtu.be/jdYumJkWNxs
Original track: https://youtu.be/8DWxRjnPXFs
Mr. Bill's website: https://live.mrbillstunes.com/

Mr. Bill - Running (Patchworker Remix)

Duvet - BOA

The rhythms of hip-hop provide a placemat for nervously melodic splendor and a melting pot of genres.  What are we to call this compellingly oddball mélange of rock, rap, jazz, reggae, and other influences, all in sway to some of the most mirthfully self-conscious streams of consciousness you’ve ever heard? We could call it attention-deficit-disorder rock. Or maybe we should just call it Forrest Day, the Bay-area bandleader who’s releasing his self-titled full-length debut on the Ninth Street Opus label. 

Cohorts include guitarist Terrell Liedstrand, a bandmate of Day’s since they were both 15, and bassist John Sankey, another high school buddy. Keyboard player Nick Wyner also came on board when the band was founded in 2006, and Jasper Skydecker joined up as their first full-time drummer a year later. When they went into the studio together for the first time, it was with several years of live performances under their belts and a chemistry that Day wanted to capture—and ever-so-slightly digitally tamper with.

“We hit analog tape with everything, but then dumped it into ProTools to manipulate it there,” says Day, who produced the album himself. “So a lot of it is like a big marriage between actual performance and then, in editing, turning some of the songs into loops—though it doesn’t really sound like it, because it’s so analog-sounding.” Day also points out that “there’s not a sample on the record. We brought in real violin players, who were in the room with real saxophones.”

Day’s amusingly confessional songwriting dabbles in social commentary about corporate greed (“Hoarders”) and our overmedicated society (“Meds”), among other concerns. But he returns again and again to everyday struggles common to itinerant musicians and non-musicians alike: bad bosses, lost jobs, debt collectors, and the girlfriend as muse or unwitting patron of the arts. There’s an elaborate work ethic apparent in these meticulously crafted tunes that would seem to put the lie to lyrics that talk about being dreamy, uncertain, and aimless. What we have on this striking debut, then, is a collection of incredibly focused anthems for an unfocused generation. 



Forrest Day - Sleepwalk

made this track and wrote to it today - i really just need to put this out so i can feel like i've completed something cuz i did absolutely nothing but lay around and make music all day

i hope you like it

(lyrics!)

i need to not pick up my phone
i’ll go straight to airplane mode
find something to do i know
i can be a little bit cold

but my third eye
is going blind
i’m unaligned
with my body and mind
its playing tricks
i say "i’m fine"
but really it's hurtin' me deep inside

cuz
i’ve been dreaming bout you
i’ve been wishin that i was next to you
i've been dreaming of us
i've been thinking this is not a need or a must

but
love has treated me so so wrong
this year all i've got to show are songs
and i want to be 
super duper true
to you 
but god i don’t know what to do
cuz last year i was just 22
feels like it up and flew
so far away and out of view
but 23 seems like me and you  

cuz
i’ve been dreaming bout you
i’ve been wishin i was next to you
i’ve been dreaming of us
i’ve been thinking this is not a need or a must

i know sometimes i make you feel insane
i'm sorry thats just how i play this stupid game
i can't act like a child and disobey
all that you want from me and that you say
im sorrryyyyy baby
pleeeese puppy 
i’m trying to be
ultra mega happy
and show you my smile 
and send you my feelings 
and fuck - it is so hard 
being so damn far
i guess i’ll just stay here 
and..
stay singing in my car?
(i'll sing in my car)

i’ve been dreaming bout you
i’ve been wishin i was next to you
i’ve been dreaming of us
i’ve been thinking this is not a need or a must

but
i've been waiting on you
i've been waiting for you to tell me those three words too
cuz
i've been hoping it's true
that one day i'll feel like i am something real for you

airplane mode

Mother Mother - Forever And A Bit

verbatim - mother mother

Music is a patchwork.

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