reminds me of the mountain goats. perhaps it's perfect the way it is. The guitar has flourish and restraint. The lyrics are smart and the vocals play with vulnerability, though perhaps expanding on the emotion shown by the singer could give the whole song more of the depth you are looking for by adding instruments.

city steve!

Solid singing, and I like the lyrics. You can tell there was thought put into them.

This song makes me happy...though I couldn’t catch all the lyrics. Maybe it’s just the limitations of my earxtremities...

@fudgetusk Sort of -- I imagine we got to the weirdness similar ways (i.e. naturally by being weird people).

I listened to this with invisible glassine closed-ear headphones that were connected via IBM 3270 terminal adapter to my OpenBSD 6.2 Thinkpad 42p.

Did you record this with a cylindrical glassine entity worn over your middle finger or what.

I think I left a dishonorable discharge on the back of her Fleet uniform last time we hung out, but she hasn't sent me a dry cleaning bill yet, so at least I've got that going for me.

I especially liked the title, but one thing I noticed was that you may want to try it in a different key, to make the male vox a little more fluid.

Recalibrate...the mass spectrometer? The perforator? What

Better than expctd

Spooky, like a zombie bookie coming back for his money.

thanks for the kind words!

It's funny you should say that; I realized during recording that I subconsciously ripped the main motif from "In Limbo". Most of the melodies are based on 12-tone contrapuntal transformations of the first 4 notes, and I think that's also how most of the melodies in "In Limbo" were developed, so a bunch of fragments in this song end up matching fragments in that one...

this is incredible. so early seventies heavy metal.

cool song. would love to hear radiohead give this one a go.

dig it! great song.

Do you like hard rock and metal songs? Hit me up.

Very pretty.

LIAL like it a lot

@fudgetusk Sort of -- I imagine we got to the weirdness similar ways (i.e. naturally by being weird people).

Widow/kiddo is the best rhyme I've heard in an RPM album this year and it's not close.

Vocal sound is flat-out badass!

I heard the first couple bars of this and thought, "What dark magic is this?" Then hit the "about" tab. Harmonic minor harmonica! Brilliant!

I want to write an arrangement of this for the choir at my church. Are those diminished chords near the end?

It's funny you should say that; I realized during recording that I subconsciously ripped the main motif from "In Limbo". Most of the melodies are based on 12-tone contrapuntal transformations of the first 4 notes, and I think that's also how most of the melodies in "In Limbo" were developed, so a bunch of fragments in this song end up matching fragments in that one...

At the beginning I thought, "The over-indulgence really isn't as grotesque as all that." Then the middle came.

For some reason I remembered this song saying "on your side" and not "online", and wanted to cover it in really bombastic (maybe sort of Weezer-esque) fashion if I ever (magically) became competent at guitar and drums (without practicing).

Regarding this song's description -- If we only look for what is missing, we will often miss what is.

The sound and words and playing and singing style all work together really well here.

This is hi-larious.

hehe.

Nice guitar playing, keeps the beat going without being simplistic, and some really great moments vocally!

1. Chicago's L announcement guy is the best, the Minneapolis chick is just average. 3. Do they do crazy things on the Hiawatha line like on the L? I mean, like, decorated trains for the holidays (they have a whole "Santa's Sleigh" train, which is awesome). Also, drivers that say weird creepy stuff over the intercom on Valentine's Day (that one may not have been an officially sanctioned program). 2. Cool song, nice groove.

Yay, some single-reeds! Also, you did more singing than usual (on the album generally)! Cool!

(is your username a dark tower reference or is cuthbert your name or something?) the transition into the non-beat-y section of this feels really familiar, i don't know why. anyhow, it sounds really nice!

Moar like SEXUAL congress time is sexy time, amirite?

Random thoughts on your album. 1. For a while I kept reading the title of this album/song as "tunesight" and I thought "that sounds like it might be full of synths and drum machines", and I didn't listen to it for a while, sort of because I was busy but also sort of because of the title, which wasn't actually its title. 2. When I picture you making music I picture you in a room with at least one whole side and maybe part of the ceiling made of window, with sun pouring in, but somehow there isn't glare anywhere and you don't have to wear sunglasses inside, because, seriously. Anyway, my point is that this room is warm, and not because the heater is on. And you pull down a trusty sun-faded uke from the wall and start playing into an invisible microphone connected to an invisible MacBook running Linux. Or maybe BSD. NetBSD. *Invisible* NetBSD. 3. So it's natural, then, that you're in LA. Is it cheating to do a February music challenge in LA?

This would be perfect music for a Brad Neely short, in every way.

Ha, I just faved three straight tracks on your album. This one because I like the tune, and it somehow sounds like a cross between lots of bands I like.