Written 3.26.2021. Recorded 3.27.2021 live with one mic.

Ever Given - Acoustic

a basement recording of This Will Be Our Year from the Zombies' 1968 album Odessey* and Oracle

*The designer botched the spelling on the cover art and they decided to roll with it.

This Will Be Our Year

Many years ago I was in a band called The Fashioncolors. This song was composed by the singer Bob Early. I added the instrumental bridge, which makes an already kind of long song even longer. I think it gives it some space to breathe though. 

Recorded live to two tracks with my Sony ECM-MS957 mid/side stereo mic.

Sirens - solo acoustic

Tracked in our respective homes in spring 2020 mid-COVID-19 pandemic and originally released on Ball of Wax 60 (60 second songs). Sam played keyboard drums, Jeffery sang backing vocals into his tablet. Louis O' Callaghan put down some guest bass. An accompanying video with scenes from home is here: youtu.be/xFUi3FNpHb4

Lifeboats

Live recorded acoustic cover of The New Year's Great Expectations from their 2001 album Newness Ends

Great Expectations

This originally appeared on Ball of Wax 45 (One Minute Singles) alongside another song with the same title by Rowan Adair. You can read the whole story of that here: ballofwax.org/2016/08/ball-of-wa…owan-calder-adair/ This is effectively a Laughing Group Song as Jeffrey and Sam both wrote their parts It was recorded live to 3 tracks in our old practice space by Louis O’Callaghan.

Can I Have My Bullet Back?

Written for Ball of Wax 62 (Songs from November 4th, 2020).  A fuller arrangement will appear on BOW. This is just acoustic guitar and vocals recorded live.

The Understudy Caught The Cold - Acoustic

A mostly acoustic cover of The Pulsars' Suffocation from their 1997 self- titled album.

Suffocation

TLG has a live arrangement of this song, but this home recording strays pretty significant from it. This was mainly done as an experiment for a few different recording techniques (blending programmed and live drums, recording electric guitar direct).

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Live solo recording of Electronic's 1989 single Getting Away With It

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