https://alexeishishkin.bandcamp.com/album/good-times

https://www.getalternative.com/premiere-alexei-shishkin-disco-elysium

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Good Times

Disco Elysium

Premiered by Under the Radar Magazine – https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_alexei_shishkin_shares_new_track_magpie

“I was actually going to name the album Magpie, but by the time we got around the finalizing it, Peach Pit had *just* released an album called Magpie, so I obviously couldn’t bite that (much like the pit of a peach, coincidentally). This song is another product of mine and Brad’s “experimental” songwriting on this album. I think I had recently seen (or was thinking about) an animated short called Robin Robin, where Richard E. Grant voices a magpie character. Or maybe it was because my friend Joe likes Newcastle, who are called the Magpies. I’m not really sure, but either way, I was fascinated with the birds, so if I recall correctly, I asked Brad to open up a browser window on the video monitor in the vocal booth and just pull up some “magpie facts” for me to get inspiration from. “I see you taking everything shiny” is a nod to magpies loving shiny things; “moving in tidings” refers to the fact that a group of magpies is called a tiding; and then there’s the more obvious things like “flying”, “flocking”, “chattering”, etc. Gotta love a magpie!” – Alexei Shishkin

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Magpie

Taken from 'Good Times' (Out Sep 5th via Rue Defense) - Making Of Essay: https://atwoodmagazine.com/essay-alexei-shishkin-the-making-of-good-times

'Tiki Taka (2006)' Premiere: https://fortherabbits.net/2025/07/24/premiere-alexei-shishkin-tiki-taka-2006

“This song was inspired by FC Barcelona, but not by my own choosing. For this one (and most of the tunes on this album, tbh), Brad and I wrote all the music first and then filled in the gaps with mostly improvised lyrics. I went into the vocal booth, and Brad put on some random soccer highlights for me to watch while singing. It just so happened that he pulled up some supercut of Barca moments, so I just started making up soccer things: the “landslide in Sevilla” was about some match where Barca were beating Sevilla team by a lot of goals; getting “broken down” is about Barca passing the ball around until they find a gap in the defense that they can exploit; and the “move it around” refrain is also about the act of passing the ball around the field and maintaining possession. Ironically, it pains me because I normally cheer against Barcelona, but I would be a fool to deny their greatness.” – Alexei Shishkin

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Tiki Taka (2006)

https://alexeishishkin.bandcamp.com/album/good-times

“This one was inspired by Carl Dennis, a favorite poet of mine. He has a poem called “At Home With Cézanne” that I had read the night before and really enjoyed. Again, Brad and I wrote the bulk of the music first, and then I fit lyrics to the music. I couldn’t find the text of the poem anywhere online, so here’s a picture of it – https://imgur.com/a/q5mG1A2. I took his characters, but tried to re-imagine them in a slightly different, parallel universe.” – Alexei Shishkin

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