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Emily
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One woman Indie Rock Band
2:00AM Wake Up Call
đ07/06/2024
Dead City
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i guess i'm a sweetheart idk. Rookie numbers :/
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51. The moment I realized I wasnât gonna be able to play my own drums on this record was when I wrote that the fill that comes just before the pre-chorus in Record To Tape. That shits too good to cut and simultaneously too hard for me
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50. Also for that song, predictably âand it hurts cuz it didnât have to be like thisâ is a car seat headrest reference
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49. Furthermore, who is the âweâ that the singer shared earbuds with? Hmm
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48. Speaking of intentional lyrical ambiguity inserted to create multiple valid meanings to a song â in We All Live Our Lives in Constant Painâs second verse, who is the She and Her when âsheâ wrecked âherâ car đ¤
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47. The pedal steel was one of the last things I got for the album, played by the talented Dustin, but If I Could Go Back in particular just sounds completely unfinished without it. Truly a cornerstone of that track
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46. Another inspiration for Record to Tape was this image in my head of sending someone a letter and never knowing if theyâd received it and read it before they died or not. The original concept was an 1800s man confessing he was gay to his wife, but never knowing if she read it. I may revisit this
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The 5 political rules
1. Dumbest thing always happens
2. Democrats love losing
3. ??
4. ???
5. Everybody loses
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Also, hardly the point butâŚ.. who the fuck would go âhmmm, I need to go to a place with less talk about the Gaza genocide⌠I know Iâll go to Blueskyâ ?????
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45. The phrase âmy body is a dead cityâ never appears on the album once, but when I thought of it it was such a good encapsulation of what the album felt like, I made it a pretty major part of the promo and packaging. One day I wanna make t shirts with it
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Incredibly excited about this
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need to edge a man callenger and soon đĽ´
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44. Conceptually I sequence all my albums with a side 1 and side 2 in mind. For this album itâs divided evenly, with Bitrot ending side 1, and We All Live Our Lives in Constant Pain leading side 2
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43. As an example of the former; we all live our lives in constant pain was track 3 for a *long* time and it was quite a decision to move it to track 6. But I think it paid off in the end
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42. in album sequencing, I had to compromise between the album flowing musically, and the story holding together chronologically. I picked to prioritize the former, which means the story is chronologically kind of nonlinear (for side 1 anyway) but honestly I think that also works with the themes đ¤ˇđťââď¸
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I will never miss an opportunity to raise awareness
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bsky.app/profile/suku...
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phew. Thatâs a load off
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need tbhhh
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listen. if this is the asylum and im one of the inmates then im fine with that
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COOOKINGGGGGGG
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41. Iâm utterly addicted to the interval changes that make up the dead city chorus/coda. If youâll notice the change intervals are the same as in the title track from Mall Fantasy is Dead, though in Dead City itâs IV I V and in MFID itâs bVII VI I
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40. The Dead City demo had a different piano intro than the final version. I wrote that part specifically to try and trick the listenerâs ear as to what the root was when the song proper began. The old intro was much more straightforward in this, while the new one I had more fun w it
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39. I actually recorded an entire round of like 12 demos as a first try for this album and not a single one of the demos was good enough to make it. Truly a sad state of affairs. Next round of demos was like a 80% hit rate
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38. Another cut song that was on the album in previous drafts was a ska track called St. Elmoâs Fire that stole the melody from Going Away Party, a now decanonized album of mine
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37. Bitrot was actually only one of two 5/4 riffs I was tinkering with at the time, and the only reason I held the other one (likely for my next album) is cuz it felt gauche to have two 5/4 songs on the same 10 song album
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36. WALOLICP and Compo Book both include a Casiotone MT500 in their rhythm tracks. This is an actual model I thrifted, but the DI out is unreliable so I literally just miced the speaker
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35. A couple misc instruments I played on the album that I forgot to put in the liner notes include Glockenspiel and Bongos on WALOLICP, Fan Organ on Compo Book, and Harmonica on Bitrot
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34. In âif I could go backâ the line ânowadays I think about it oftenâ is a sort of reference to the jungheim song Medallion which has a similar line sung with a similar melody
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The fact that these stats end in 2022 is *highly* relevant here
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33. One idea behind Record to tape was dubbing a tape to another tape so many times the generation loss renders the original completely erased, but still there somehow
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32. The second verse of Dead City is inspired by the town my parents live in where they have those public art pianos, except nobody serviced them for two years so now all the keys are broken
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31. Paper and Pens was meant as a kind of janglepop homage to bands like Tom Petty and I think it hits that mark well even though nobody else can really see it
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29. I wouldnât call it a concept album, but you *can* get a trough line narrative if you listen for it, and I made this album for the people who would listen for it. Warning: itâs sad
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28. Most of the synth patches on the album I made myself using the Korg Opsix Fm Synthesizer, which I got on sale because people hate it and it was broken a lot. But I got mine fixed for free and I like it, so fuck you, the haters
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27. I commissioned the album art way early in the recording process, after Iâd completed all the demos but when nothing else was even in the can. I donât regret it because the album art is so FUCKING good that it pushed me to make an album worthy of it
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26. The second part of the first verse of Dead City was originally completely different, goofier, and not as good. Also I just like the word Exsanguinated