Sean Carroll: OP-1 Jeff: voice; text; synth

I just recently put the Our Father in Latin to a melody. This is a demo recording. I will be recording a proper version with some minor changes here and there.

Three possibly different types of noise - courtesy of a Mini-Moog - layered atop each other. There are at least two (white and pink, which are also run through a digital delay); the third is an attempt at creating something apparently referred…

Unused track from new album

I stay up after the kids are finally down And my wife is deep asleep Sit in the dark Put a record on It’s the only time I’m free Alone with bourbon and my thoughts Or joined by the ghosts of friends I’ve lost Wandering the halls of memory…

Everything is a minimal gray Here in Pelican Bay There is no escape Here in Pelican Bay This house is full of people I never get to see Been living here for years They still don’t know me Just waiting out my days Here in Pelican Bay…

(One day he just didn't pick up the guitar. Too tired after work, or uninspired. He turned on the TV. A year passed. The strings went rusty and black. He looked over at it, leaning in the stand. Did he even remember how any of the songs went?)

She said most of the stars up there Have been dead for a billion years And all that light and heat Dissipated unseen Isn’t that the most perfect thing? Dead stars... She said all those stars you see Have been dead for an eternity All…

Lost in the angles and the tangle of the streets Chasing hits and stealing bits and paying for our dreams Spent our nights going deaf and going too far Burning up days in a California noir We were just Broke kids Trying to get fixed Broke…

(Another day. Another week. Could barely remember what day it was. What month it was. It didn’t matter. It was all the same. The morning coffee. The food. The internet. The evening booze. The bright, flickering screens. The dreamless sleep…