Airy Nothings

I have been recording some music in the attic over the past few weeks. My goal is to have an album featuring between ten and fifteen original songs recorded by the time I graduate (August 24).

I've written the songs over the course of the past few years. Most of them are basically just fragments. I usually get bored with a song and leave it wounded rather than kill it off completely.

I find it really hard to write lyrics. Music is such an ethereal thing, writing lyrics for a melody is like trying to pin a butterfly to the wall while it's alive and fluttering around. Most of the songs are fairly typical love songs, but I think my style is becoming a little more sophisticated. I feel like a lot of music serves to keep us in a kind of permenent adolescence. There's a lot more to write about than holding hands and heartbreak. I guess pop music is particularly effective when dealing with these subjects, but I'm trying to write about something else, not politics, but just anything interesting.

I am using Apple's Garageband and a Blue Snowball microphone for drums, organ, percussion and vocals, as well as an iMic USB input to record the guitars. I think the guitar amplifiers on garageband are basically shit, but I can't seem to get a good sound any other way.



If somehow you manage to find yourself all the way out here on this little internet outpost would you please be so kind as to visit this link to here some of the music.

Here's a tentative track listing:

1. Mushroom Cloud
2. I Like the Way Your Pants Fit
3. Static Electricity
4. Let's Stay Up All Night
5. I Want to Wake Up Next To You
6. Hall of Mirrors
7. Marilu
8. Black Rainbows
9. Tattered, Shattered, Broken and Beat
10.Girl With Her Feet on My Dashboard
11.Supersonic Narcissist