Folklore

Lost at Sea

February 14, 2014 is the eighth track from my new live looping album, Life is Easy. Recorded live in my bedroom studio. #livelooping

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.

February 14, 2014

First track off the new album! I hope you dig it ;)

Accelerated

If that's a lot to know...

A wanderer decides it is time to venture into the unknown realm of self, but she is not alone as someone she loves is seeking her out from afar.

Dear universe
I've emptied my purse
I am finally awake
The Phoenix reborn
The spear and the thorn
Wont harm me in this state
Illusion of change
I've conquered your maze
Now I'm making my escape
If I get close
And you shut the doors
I will find another way

Heaven holds my heart
The earth demands my weight
Tonight I will depart
To be there with you

Finally Awake

Selections from the EP "Let Go" to be released April 29, 2013

Let Go

6th song on "Throw Money". Drums by Ken Mahru. Mixed and mastered by Jared Crabb.

I ran out of clever things to say.
I'm left with those tired old cliches.
At the end of the day it's all the same...
Out of touch, and I don't know how I feel.
Trying to re-invent the wheel.
I'm needing a jump start for my brain.

(What is wrong?)
I really don't have an answer for that question.
(What is gone?)
There's nothing missing, but I'm only guessing.
(Love is strong.)

And there's one thing that 
I know to be an actual fact.
I fell flat, and love is what was bringing me back.
Now that I know what I lack,
I need another dose of you, stat!

Sometimes I feel like an empty shell 
that isn't doing very well.
That didn't live up to all the hype.
Was this supposed to be my fate?
To be nothing special, nothing great.
It doesn't add up, it don't seem right.

(What is wrong?)
I really don't have an answer for that question.
(What is gone?)
There's nothing missing, but I'm only guessing.
(Love is strong.)

And there's one thing that I know to be an actual fact.
I fell flat, and love is what was bringing me back.
Now that I know what I lack,
I need another dose of you, stat!

I'm not where I thought I'd be.
It turned out to be make believe,
and somehow you're in love with me.
At least there is one thing that I know to be an actual fact.
I fell flat, and love is what was bringing me back.
Now that I know what I lack,
I need another dose of you, stat!

I Fell Flat

I organize the sounds of obsolete electronics and thrift store guitars.

February 14, 2014

State Shirt

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