All songs written and performed by J. Alexander Beyer. 

Recorded in Oaklyn, NJ, from May through September 2011 by Ryan Holiday.

The debut EP, Matter & Light, is a short collection of songs that have existed for some time.

Southern trees, the mortality and weakness in familial bonds and a Japanese death haiku. 

Readings From R.H. Blyth

Part of the Song of the Week series wherein a line is supplied and must be used within it. 

Build around yourself with variations of realization about loss and the pleading that comes with it.

Why Can't The Air

This house is meant to fall. Listen to the creaks behind the plaster.

Friends & Lovers (Demo)

If I’ve got blood that’s black ink, then so do you.

Psalm (Demo)

Sometimes you write a song to write song. Sometimes you write a song because you're dared to write a song. And sometimes you write a song because you're dared to write a song about a clown. So you make it the saddest song you could ever write and hope for the best. Here's that song.

Written 2008 
Recorded June 26, 2013 at 
Retro City Studios

2013 Unreleased

Berliner Zirkus

The best songs are made on dares and deadlines. This is somewhere in between.

So, Regret

Tiny Cities is J. Alexander Beyer and John McCormick, Jr., multi-instrumentalists based in and around Philadelphia, PA.

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