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the disquiet (3.13)
2. clown hands (3.01)
3. bottle rockets (3.52)
4. the ox (3.14)
5. chambers (4.06)
6. hailstones (3.47)
7. you'd make a shit wizard (0.43)
8. floor filler (4.38)
9. misdirection (3.22)
10. the drunks are trampolining again (8.52)
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Head
down to the bottom of the page for a frankly ridiculous
number of mp3s, all provided free of charge via the
magic of the computer age. I also have slightly bigger
versions of the front
cover and
inside front cover, if you click the links you
just saw. As well as mahoosive versions of the whole
front inlay and the
back, if you click those links. Check 'em out,
art fans! Tina did 'em!
It's scary to think I've reached 25 CDs, I must be
in line for some kind of medal. I'm not as frequent
these days, it's December now and this is only my third
album of the year, but I like to think I'm giving quality
over quantity now. In actual fact, though, it's just
work commitments and a tendency to fill my spare time
with PS2 games. Still, it's out just in time for you
to re-write those Album Of The Year lists. Please let
me beat the Scissors Sisters. In all senses.
So, music then! 'The Disquiet' was recorded in patches
between August and December of 2004, though most of
it was done in a concerted pulling-together of my shit
in December, only 'chambers' and the title track survived
from August. 'Chambers', like many things I do, was
a rough demo which I then decided to leave alone. I
really should stop doing demos, cos I'm such a sucker
for the concept of leaving things rough rather than
polishing stuff. This thinking is clearly evident on
some spazzy solos on the likes of 'misdirection' and
'hailstones'. Bum notes as art, join me. The other
characteristic of this CD, if you're the kind of person
who's into looking for 'themes' (perhaps you're writing
a dissertation on the works of Enough Rope for your
Lo-Fi Bedroom Music Theory degree), is post-production.
Which in my case is a fancy name for sticking echo
on guitar parts to make them sound better and more
interesting. The echo in some of these things ('bottle
rockets', 'misdirection' etc) is a respectful nod towards
Mono and whoever they were respectfully nodding towards
when they slathered 'Under The Pipal Tree' in echo
and delay. It's all fucking sonic cathedrals round
my way, buddy.
Favourites here include 'bottle rockets' (kind of in
a similar vein to 'casey'), 'the ox' (sounds better
if you imagine the drums in your brain), and the closer
'the drunks are trampolining again'. That one is the
only one here whose title really means anything, as
it's based on a late-night droney thing I was messing
around with when I was in one of my 'let's get a bit
longform and interesting like I'm in Jackie-O Motherfucker'
modes. There's a family two doors down from me who
bought their kids an enormous trampoline for the back
garden, and every few weeks the adults get drunk and
stagger out into the garden at 2am to 'hilariously'
go trampolining. They're not even students. Anyway,
they provided the soundtrack to me doing something
similar to this song, which is pretty much improvised.
I really, really like it though, for that reason, and
the fact it sounds like it's on the edge of breaking
into noise but never quite does.. I'm actually quite
proud of this record, it's a good mix between actual
songs and shapeless aural mess, which is pretty much
what I'm aiming at.
This record features a special guest appearance by
Miss Tina Toth, who does my artwork and provides me
with good loving. Her laugh provides the spooky background
noise to 'floor filler'. Note: the sample of her laughing
was remixed somewhat, she doesn't usually laugh like
that. Obviously. |
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