Thing #8 is a reworking of an old song that I wrote for FAWM a couple of years back. It’s also the penultimate in my Ep Papercut Sunlight Snow.

The guitar riff uses the whole tone scale on E (though the bass line contradicts that with an A natural) – the chorus uses the chords Gminor Bminor Bflat Dminor (very similar to a certain christmas song by Slade. Shhhh, don’t tell anyone).

The lyrics came out of a word randomiser, which i then hacked together to produce something that is probably about going to sleep in a rubbish bin.

This week’s new track is a song I wrote for last year’s February Album Writing Month. It’s called ‘Shoot Every Ghost’ and is about as pop as I get in my songwriting.

All in E major with some live percussion and a messy distorted keyboard pad that I really like. The title turned up when I using a word randomising gizmo, probably ‘titular’ from the fawm.org website.

Enjoy:

The fifth of my 52 Things is Self Made Man.

This is a song I wrote a few years ago, but I’ve only just got round to recording properly.

It’s in G minor and the melody is based on the G minor blues scale – in that it has a flat 5th note in it C#, but I decided to use A augmented as the second chord (A C# F), which makes it sound rather different to the blues.

It is about a man who graduallly replaces all body parts with mechanical alternatives.

Here’s 52 Things #3 – Last Sunlight.

I’m releasing a new piece of music every weekend for 52 weeks. I sort of know what I’m doing up until half way through March.

This is a new version of an old song – I’ve redone some of the guitars, bass and drums and remixed it.

Enjoy!

Maybe we’ll surface soon,
Under a winter moon,
Thaw must have left weakness.

Maybe we’ll freeze again
Awaiting the summer rain,
Ice in our veins.

A ship sails on a solid sea,
A perfect place for you and me,
A moondial turns until we move again.

Last sunlight for six months,
Last movement this year.

Last Sunlight Fading,
Ice in our veins.