Anathema

Every now and again, it is helpful to lift your head and see what has been going on around you.  That is what we do today on Routes & Branches & Beyond - I play some music that is relatively new to this world.  I have remote Scottish electronocelt, romantic (but unrealistic) odes to ploughboy laddies, unforgetful travel tunes, Canadian harmonica wizardry, sublime vocals from the Barnsley nightingale, northern rhythm, jigs 'n lessons, and Irish-ish side projects.  All from musicians like Barry Reid, Northern Light, Mike Stevens, Kate Rusby, Tim Edey, the Aerialists and Wolf & Clover.  C'mon along.

Routes & Branches & Beyond, show # 230, 23 June 2022

Original song by Kieran Grogan, produced by Timm Horn in Greenville, WI and Appleton, WI in 2009.  Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering

Favorite Thing In Town

Formerly Rose (2009)

A lo-fi, bedroom cover of Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World" from her 1962 album, The End of the World.

Guitar, bass, keyboard (sounds & percussion), & vocals performed, recorded, & mixed by Christopher Simple (Brown) 

Had the bug to cover this song when it was stuck in my head a lot during the end of Summer 2021. So I (slowly and very periodically) worked on it from Fall 2021 to it's final mixed version at the end of June 2022.

The End of the World (Skeeter Davis cover)

June

Vienna (Billy Joel Cover)

Einfach Da

MoliNa - Einfach Da

out now on all major streaming platforms :)

LYRICS:
You can find me
in the grasp of an empty glass
crying wildly and talking fast
oh my.

Not surprising,
I’m far gone as I’m so so sad
I’ve drilled light years above my chest
mmmm.

Alright, 
come close, she says
I have a feeling I can’t get
from any man or anyone else I’ve ever met.
And maybe I’m a fool
for you.
Something exquisite that you do,
I’m jaded or I’m bitter of you I confess.

She says I just want to make you happy.
Can’t you see that I,

I’m so, so so sad,
I’m so so sad
Mmmm
I’m so, so so sad
I’m so so sad
mmmm.

You can find me,
in the grasp of an empty glass
dancing wildly and talking fast
oh my.
I bruise lightly,
so she’s soft as I’m so so sad,
cartoon palms up against my back,
mmmm.

She says I just want to make you happy,
I just want to make you happy.
She says I just want to make you happy
I can make you happy, 
Oh so happy.
She said maybe I could make you happy,
Can’t you see that I’m,

So sad, 
So so sad
I’m so so sad
Mmmm,
I’m so, so so sad,
I’m so so sad,
mmmm,
I’m so, so so sad,
I’m so so sad,
I’m so, so so sad,
I’m so so sad,
mmmm.

Music produced by Kyle May (ig: @kylemayphoto )
Artist: Kate Whittle (ig: @kate.doll17 )
Harp: Anna Drewniok (ig: @anna_drewniok )
Cello: Akito Goto (ig: @gotoakito )
Writing, vocals: Sophie Bernice (@sbernicemusic)

So So Sad

Produced and arranged by Kyle May
Written and sung by Sophie Bernice

I am amused, 
feeling my fingertips walk 
your fingertips move through the glass, 
I’m spooked for hours by that. 

I paint me as braver 
like a real woman, a smooth operator 
to feel part of this ordeal 

I am a machine 
not a man 
I am not one to feel 
I am dead to the world and his dog 
I’m not sad, just indifferent 
am I glad? no 

creator oh creator.. 
let’s reunite if we’re good 
but I fear that my maker is gone 
cos I’m so far gone. 

Paint me a sailor, 
because I need some kind of human behaviour 
I’ve forgotten 
it’s rich flavour. 

I am a machine 
not a man 
I am not one to feel 
I am dead to the world and his dog 
I’m not sad, just indifferent 
am I glad? no 

Watching you from far behind my eyes 
I’ll come back to earth in time 
I’ll see you oh so soon 
oh to be near you 
really be there with you babe 
I’d be a fool, 
for you 

we are not machine 
we are men 
who forgot how to feel 
we’re not dead to the world nor his dog 
we’re just sad and indifferent 
is it forever? no

I Am A Machine

I want to pull my hair out
I want to kick the moon out of the sky
I want to tear the sun down
I want to cover up all the light
I want to explode every atom inside my brain
I want to corrode in the desert simply waste away
I want to crash my car again but into my own place
I want to burn everything and watch the smoke fade away
I want to kill every thought that in my head
I want to make you see the giant hole that you left
I want to keep you from the horror I put in my life
But I don't want to run these circles so I think I'll drive

If you told me to dive into the sun
I'll do a cannonball
I'd rather have a pocket full of sunshine
Than a chance in the dark
Even my parents ask me why
I'm having such a hard time with this
They haven't seen me smile
It's all because I miss

You told me to dive into the sun
So I'll do a cannonball
I'd rather have a pocket full of sunshine
Than a chance in the dark
Even my parents ask me why
I'm having such a hard time with this
They haven't seen me smile
It's because I miss you

I want to pull my hair out
And kick the moon out of the sky
I want to take the sun down
And crash my car

(written 2022)

cannonball

Background vocals by Audrey Scout
Guitar, bass and keys by Gawain Mathews

Lyrics:
This is the dust on the vinyl 
The final reminder of you
The song on the record that skips 
So it’s over before it was through 
A 45 not 33, you got tired 
Of hearing that tune


One day I’ll forget the words to the song
Someday it will play and I won’t sing along


This is the silent ride home
The poppies we didn’t see bloom
The long quiet night with no sleep 
While the melody plays on loop


Before there was dust on the vinyl 
Before we were missing the groove 
Heard the song for the first time 
Though it’s over, it still rings true 
Here’s to the hope that you’ve found 
Someone who can carry the tune

One day, I’ll forget that you won't hear this song
Someday it will play, the ache will be gone
One day, I won’t wait for when you sing along

Dust On The Vinyl

bedroom indie pop specialist
here to ruin your day™️

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“ask me how I know”
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"i deserved better"
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“invisible monsters”
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“from the inside”
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“you know it was fun”
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"stories"
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"moves"
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"fluorescent green"
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"demo"
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"unnamed"
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“2021”
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“icarus”
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"mountains"
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"midnight snack"
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"back on my bullshit"
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"next up"
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“fire”
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okbye

Kieran is a solo recording artist from Wisconsin who creates albums with producers as well as by himself.  He to date has released ten solo albums, however he has released records with High Density (1999), Riverside All-Stars (2001), Kieran & the Plague (2008), and the Fishermen (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2018).

The K.O.N.N.

occasional music-meandering
lo-fi collaborations
too old to be a sad boi
plays in some bands

Founder of Inside Lands, a series of house concerts in living rooms and listening spaces around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mental Home Productions
Heart on, Brain off
experimental Hip hop,  
electronic beats & music
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