Priority Male by Dildozer

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In 2014, Dildozer made a full-length with some new songs and some old songs, and a new bass player/backup vocalist. Our album cover wasn't loved by all, and that's okay. I always thought punk music was supposed to annoy everyone who doesn't 'get it'. We were before the phase when punk bands were instead trying to write songs in display of their niceness and general caring about pretty much anything. Who has time for that? I suspect Dildozer might have been kicked out of Punk if we'd stuck around. But what do you call this music if it's not punk? It's opinionated. It's catchy. It's mean. It was recorded in the non-climate controlled storage unit where we practiced all year round, in hot hot saint augustine. Dawson played my squier J-Bass, which wasn't set-up for standard tuning, so I autotuned it. On Youtube, you'll hear my newer mix of these tracks, but on the tape and on bandcamp you'll hear the nasty nasty original mix. These tapes were professionally duplicated, imprinted, j-carded, and cased. I would highly recommend buying a box to fill your closet instead of mine.

Getting Colder by Thunderhoof

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This is the 2nd album I made with Thunderhoof, and I think turned out better than the first one. Once again, it was recorded in my storage unit, and has that 'recorded in a storage unit' sound. The songs on this one are even darker and more aggressive than on By the Flames. For this tape, we sprung for the professionally printed j-cards with the jewel cases. The coloring on my old computer monitor was pretty bad, and you can tell because of the color difference between the paper and the background on the album cover. So it may not look as pro as you might expect from a band like Thunderhoof, but that's okay. Often the pros are boring. The drawing on the cover was done by Brittany Drennan, and I think it looks awesome. Definitely worth purchasing!

As A Human by Super Famicom

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With at least as much effort as my last album, I recorded another tape in 2014. For that year, I had moved into a little house on Lovett street where I had the smallest room, so made sense for me to spend as much time as possible in the storage unit. With As a Human, I tried to write the darkest, smartest songs of my career. I even used a thesaurus for the lyrics, which might have been a bad idea. My vocal parts were extremely hard to sing, so I used a program called Melodyne to correct my notes, like on a pop album. I don't think it made my vocals sound better, by any means. So I made them somewhat quiet and highly compressed, to carry a melody like an instrument instead of a focal point. I think As a Human has some of my sickest jams. My friend Jake Brown played drums in the next storage unit over, and put out this tape on his label, Computer Club Records.

In Spades by Super Famicom

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Following the nature of Purpose Defeated, I made another album of music that I thought needed to exist, for my own enjoyment. It's dark, passionate, and called In Spades because it has Super Famicom (as an adjective) in Spades. The lyrics are vaguely about anarchy and living the life of an artist with intention. I tried my best to be poetic. Chorus effects are used. You might refer to this style of music as Dark Punk, considering how Dark Wave relates to New Wave. These songs were recorded in the late winter and early spring of 2014, in my storage unit.