thiscausticautumn

Novella Minor

This is the title track from our album, and is the counter part to the track, "Watershed." They are very closely related counterparts, and throw hands with each other from time to time. Those were... (more)

Means to an End

Track 2 from the album Novella Minor.
Started as an acoustic track that I brought to practice one day, and then it turned into this.

Means to an End

So what's that you're... (more)

Swift Devices

This song came about a couple years ago as an acoustic piece, recorded without being fully written. It went untouched and almost forgotten until we started piecing the album together and were looking... (more)

Swollen With Some Astonishing Significance

track 4 from Novella Minor.

Take

track 5 from Novella Minor. Probably actually my least favourite song on the album. In retrospect, I would like to have replaced it with something different, but it's kind of carved in stone now. I mean... (more)

Still

This is maybe the first track written entirely by This Caustic Autumn as a group effort. I'd been to see Sigur Ros play at Massey Hall in Toronto the night before we wrote this, so that's where the idea... (more)

Pretend I'm Dead

This started as a 3 or 4 minute long piece, written after falling completely in love with Robin Trowers' 'Bridge of Sighs' LP, and the track "Too Rolling Stoned" in particular. By the time I brought... (more)

Safety in Patterns

Track 8 on the album.

Safety in Patterns
I dream right through you.
Bring home the damage to sift through.
As I tear and fold you,
I feel strange and fall... (more)

Glass Mantle

It was really cold the winter I wrote the main guitar arpeggios for this.
It was cold again the winter we arranged and recorded it.
So far, this winter's been fairly mild.

Watershed

Track 10 on the LP, Novella Minor, this is the opposite outlook on the same subject as the title track, hence the opposite intention in their respective names. I think they were written back to back;... (more)

Out of Your Way

Track 11 on Novella Minor. Sort of the climax to the story, if the album can be taken as a story, before the conclusion in Steppes. One of our more energetic/driving songs. On its own, it's about... (more)

Steppes/Where the Unknown Traveller Lies

This is the last track on our LP, Novella Minor. It's roughly 7 1/2 minutes long, followed by about 3 minutes of ambient interlude, and then the 'bonus' track, "Where the... (more)

An Ode to Holes in Pretty Things

This is a work in progress, and has already seen a change or two since this recording. It will eventually see the light of day on our sophomore LP, which is still only half written... (more)

A Piece of Mischief

Something relatively new. We wrote it and recorded the basic bits of it in December, 2009, but I didn't add vocals until last night. It's a sketch of something that will end up on our second... (more)

Chrome

This is something I did on my own a couple years ago that we're thinking of tackling as a band and including on our sophomore LP. It certainly has some different textures than what we're prone to churning... (more)

In the End

Not sure exactly how this one is gonna end up in the long run. I'm imagining different drum tracks going on with it, and trying to decide if that's a good idea or not.

Silent and on Fire

A sort of older recording. I really need to put vocals on it so it doesn't drive me nuts listening to it all blank like.

6.

This is brand spankin' new. Now, I forget to bring my audio-interface to practice with me last night, so we just set up a room mic. It's a seriously dirty dirty mix. But, I think it's the heaviest song we've... (more)

The Cycle Repeats

Totally a rough sketch. I need to write up some lyrics for it, and the second half will probably be totally replaced with more live instrument sounding arrangement, discarding everything but the ticking clock.

Your Mark

This is essentially a memorial for my little brother, about guilt and blame and the voids therein. I've recorded it a few times over the years, and this is the version we recorded with initial hopes... (more)

Mouldy Coffee Extravaganza

A completely unfinished demo for the eventual concoction of album number 2. No lyrics written yet. NO IDEA what to sing in this one, but it'll come to me. I hope. heh.
Cheers.
-Rain

1000 Trees

ANOTHER ONE with no vocals yet. sorry. heh.

In the Beginning

A little instrumental number I cooked up a few weeks ago that we're going to tackle recording properly sooner or later.

Tapestry (a formal apology)

This is a far from finished version of a new song. I have lyrics for it, but haven't recorded any vocals yet. I'll repost it in a week or so when it's a little more completed. For now... (more)