I still want to rerecord the vocal for this one, but haven't gotten around to it.

Welcome to hail mary pass #1. There are finished lyrics, but I hit a brick wall trying to pick instruments. Knowing that my time the next day would be severely limited, I decided to go for my so-called hail mary pass in order to get the song…

Written for FAWM.

My attempt at writing actual ambient music. The jury's still out on whether there's enough variance to keep the piece going.

Written for FAWM

I had a bad cold for a month and a half. It inspired the title and the (unpublished) lyrics.

I am toast and you are bread

Another silly vocal track.

I've officially run out of ideas. My brain has been nuked by the tax monster.

Written for FAWM

It had been a semi serious piano piece for many years, but then I recorded it for a class project and started ad-libbing vocals. And it turned into the goofiness you hear in the second part.

Vocal piece complete with fake accents!

Quintet L'homme armé takes as its touchstone the eponymous 15th cent. melody. The melody is subjected to a series of transformations so drastic as to render it completely unrecognizable in its new fragmented and atonal context. This transformed…

Another experiment. Today Eos was released. In trying it out, I found 7 random synth clips in my library (not entirely random but they might as well have been). These are fed for somewhat random durations and order through 4 Eos reverbs in…

This week comes partially from the Wychwood music festival at Cheltenham Racecourse, where Rob and Steve meet an assortment of celebrities. There's more Stalgia and Stevie Listings pops in again, plus the names of this year's Big Brother housemates…

Just a rough sketch, but I wanted to get it out there. It's still taking shape, but I like the atmosphere. Goes as a pair with Shine, together I find them very relaxing.

The acoustic version in rough of Often hide with part of a song written back when I was putting my mind back together, it goes as a pair with Hammers. Sorry for the glitches, the MAC chirped in a battery warning during the recording, I would avoid…

Jonathan Thomas preaches on Faith Is Favour

Here she comes in the April sun In her dungarees and she's up for fun Smiling like she's a crazy girl And she makes a face like she owns the place And she does We indulge ourselves in creating A neck of beauty and circumstance Not to mention…

This is the third downloadable show from URY's collaboration with theyorker.co.uk's 'Comments' team! Hear us live every Sunday at 2pm at ury.york.ac.uk

Lift the lamp to light the way When shadows fall Cloak of night conceal the day Another world come to life And dark dread Inhabit the night

Best Music for me

Bello espejismo - Herencias - Mi complemento

Discussing the European election results and Gordon Brown's future just before the PLP meeting

2nd June 2009, just after the European elections and before the PLP meeting

Apathy in the UK?

This is just a little country solo. Nothing special really.

"Gardens of Tomorrow" is a three song concept album completed in June 2009. The album is presented here as a single track so it can be heard as it is was intended.

"Gardens of Tomorrow" is a three song concept album completed in June 2009. The album tells the story of the fall of mankind. Burning Ground is part one of this story.

"Gardens of Tomorrow" is a three song concept album completed in June 2009. The album tells the story of the fall of mankind. Blister is part two of this story.

"Gardens of Tomorrow" is a three song concept album completed in June 2009. The album tells the story of the fall of mankind. Die With Me is part three, the finale, of this story.

special sneak peak track from electro-industrial project The Zit Hit Machine. A collaboration between Jeff Hill (vocals/lyrics) and Lee Mattox (programming).