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DTMFA ballad.

melissa may on vocals, cortex on piano, me on other stuff. From our album Complicated Lady available on vinyl or digitally.

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posted by sleepy pete (5 comments total)

I really enjoyed the arrangement on this, the way the various instruments come together. LOVE the brass-ish thing that happens 1 minute in!
posted by edlundart at 11:13 PM on January 1, 2015

What a beautiful, melancholy tune. I love the arrangement, and melissa may's voice captures several shades of sadness and anger. Very nice. And edlundart is right, there's something about that hangdog horn that really adds to the mood.
posted by umbú at 9:19 PM on January 2, 2015

That horn thing showed up by sleepy pete's doing when he was working on filling out the mix, so it was a total surprise to me when I first heard it and I was like YES, THIS IS CORRECT
posted by cortex at 2:52 PM on January 6, 2015

I love the mix on this, the way you've set the horns and strings way back in the room but everything else pretty close, like they're sat way back waiting for their moment. It's in no way overpowering even though they're turned up pretty loud. Pretty song too. Lovely understated guitar.

Cortex also, can you stop being good at things because it's not fair on everyone else.
posted by greenish at 5:40 AM on January 8, 2015

thanks for the nice words y'all.
posted by sleepy pete at 9:54 PM on January 20, 2015