Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month). A bit of a weird song, written on guitar (and it shows). A slightly unsettling chord movement which fights the prettiness at points, I think. The backwards guitar and wailing at the end was…

Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month). I won't pretend this isn't a weird one. The rhythms right with one another, the harmony is unsettling, and towards the end it points towards the next song on the album, in a quite electronic…

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There is a lot that I like about this one. There is one thing that annoys the shit out of me. On about half of this year's songs I tried to write the melody ahead of writing the lyrics. I noodled a piano melody and recorded it, then wrote…

Double tracked Wah-Wah. Pretty much the high point of awesomeness. Les Paul through a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah into a Fender Bassbreaker. Give it up now Everything that you care about trade it in for make believe and fairy tails…

If a Uni-Vibe pedal modulates the pitch, how do you double track with one? The answer? Very carefully. Actually, I just did it. I used the same settings on both guitar tracks and panned them both hard to one side. The effect was a kinda groovy…

The slow to mid-tempo ideas came hot and heavy toward the end this year. All the up tempo stuff was started within the first week or so. After that it was all funeral marches. I'm on the fence on whether or not I like this one. I had planned…

I don't hate this one, which is high praise this year. It's okay. The rhythm guitar is an ES-335 through a Joyo Vintage Phase pedal. The lead is a Les Paul through an EHX Soul Food pedal. The amp is a Fender Bassbreaker. Don’t know what…

Unraveling the lies, that's all we hear We tear away those trappings that we hold too dear Outdated props for another age Yes and by all means it was on your stage ‘Cause we're a broken people we’re broke in different ways We Never seem…

telling me you're sinking under the waves Is just another way to say you would drown me When you're sitting pretty on the powder keg And keep lighting the fuse you say I needed you in ways I didn't know And you helped me beyond my care…

Hiding to be left alone But I don't think you fare well when you're left there on their own Your only mistake, yes your initial sin Was to talk to me about it, the way you’ve never been I thought I was a rebel, and fighting you I failed…

That’s when the circling repeats its the same That's When i'm pulled from love again The face of familial exhaustion how it grabs traction it freezes repetition is so insincere And flattery the faker’s veneer And reputation’s advance…

It's the short con- I'm the musical veto Taking names with a memorandum Of misunderstanding it's so random Cause my moneymaker only shakes, with apple pay engaged, It's got my thumb stickin in places only plumbed by cherry pickin…

Another weekend working the franchises no surprises here We’re the disaffected mass you can’t excise, get excited From the beat, from your weak mistakes We demand the right to claim No excuses, no surprises that history beats on, that…

2nd song of 2017. Thrash it up and enjoy! \m/ \m/

I was a prog rock fan for years when suddenly in high school I got really into what would eventually be called Alternative. It was so weird to me that music so uncomplicated could be so good. Some songs were even made up of one phrase repeated…

2017 RPM

2017 RPM

2017 RPM

2017 RPM