This year I’m challenging myself to release new music every sunday – mostly it will be finished songs, but not every single week.
This week, the Thing is three demo songs that I’ve written for February Album Writing Month.
The Time Traveller Suite part 1 – What We Say Three Times is True
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This is proper steampunky prog rock – 8 minutes of unabashed silliness, and the first third of a three part multi-song saga.
One of the most useful songwriting techniques I know is the recycling of old ideas – this is made up of lots of old songs that I’ve cobbled together into one absurd whole.
Emptiness
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A couple of FAWMERS have been urging me to have a go at a proper metal song, so here’s my attempt at doing something sort of in the style of CYnic
Metropolis Creatures
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Vaguely radioheadish, this one. The words turned up via a word randomiser, the chords occured when I was messing around with the presets on my new synth.
So there we have 3 demos – none of them the finished article yet. I’ll come back the first as I think that one’s the strongest so far. Whether I’ll ever do anything with the others… who knows?
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