Showing posts with label dark punk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dark punk. Show all posts

PJ Baby's Tour CD

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A lot of songwriters start with a solo project, and then they get a band, a band of people who are all better musicians than the songwriter of what had been a solo project. When the band breaks up, so does the solo project. I never wanted that to happen with Super Famicom, even though I had a lot of recorded songs, with carefully written parts for many instruments. So I tried to start a band named after me. We were a three piece, and I got the guys to sort of play my parts. We needed a 2nd guitarist, but I was having a hard enough time getting my two most t rusted friends to try and play the music how I wrote it. The tour cd had some the songs we played live. Other tracks were for a very long album I was recording, but never released. There was nothing I loved more than writing and recording music. It was the proof that I wasn't a slacker, and that I had in fact worked just as hard on my music as anyone could work on anything. But I don't have the power of fame or fortune to get qualified people to play my music. So the band didn't work out. After all, I didn't want to let anyone else play on my albums. Such a thing would detrimentally slow my roll.

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.

Purpose Defeated by Super Famicom

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In response to my attitudues on Endless Fervor, I tried to 'live the life'. Work hard, play hard, and do what your friends are doing, and it made me really depressed again. So I poured all of my time into making Stone Wings, and the soundtrack. Also during that time, I wrote this album, Purpose Defeated. It was goth and emo in, to me, all the right, unexpected ways. I made the kind of album I would want to hear, because I finally had the equipment and the space to do it. I never set out to write music that was folk punk, except for The Bottom's "Folk Punk Bash". Still, I played acoustic guitar and some of my songs were punk, especially in attitude. I hoped with this album, nobody would again call Super Famicom folk punk.

Priority Male by Dildozer

Buy the Tape - Paypal $10 Stream it - YouTube Download it - Nextcloud In 2014, Dildozer made a full-length with some new songs an...