August 2020 Archives (all archives)

August 28

Brush Fire | Indie Rock, I guess?

I've briefly interluded from my normal style of electronica music in order to focus more on a sort of indie rock sound, because clearly we need more of that totally not done-to-death genre, right? I'd appreciate any feedback, though, as I have a hard time being objective and either love or hate most of my creative output. I've also included an impromptu creative writing piece inspired by the general idea in my head I had for this song. Details inside, yada yada. [more inside]

posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 5:23 PM PST - 6 comments

August 23

For Now, For Now

While halfassedly doing chores today, I made up a personal anthem, and then immediately had to "orchestrate" it for a tiny marching band. Lyrics below the cut. [more inside]

posted by moonmilk at 3:19 PM PST - 6 comments

August 21

Gan Ainm No. 1

This is a little tune I wrote a few months back. I was thinking about Irish slow airs, and wanted to have some of that feel, combined with some harmony stuff I've been playing with. I was down visiting my parents, and showed it off for them, and they demanded I record it for them, so here it is! [more inside]

posted by gorbichov at 5:45 PM PST - 5 comments

Burn

More concertina and bayan based minimalist weirdness, this time with trombone! Noisy bits are just clickety clacking the bayan's keys, and crumpling some paper.

posted by TheCoug at 12:57 PM PST - 3 comments

August 16

Let Me Into The Blaseball

While most recording equipment is destroyed by the ambient cosmic horror rays that suffuse a typical blaseball game, we've unearthed a rare crowd sing-along performance captured on hand-carved vinyl by an especially stalwart Charleston Shoe Thieves fan. Here, then, is "Let Me Into The Blaseball", an absolutely legally non-infringing original song that blaseball fans have been known to sing in what short time the Blaseball Gods choose to grant them. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 1:20 PM PST - 5 comments

August 12

Trapeze Act

Nightmarish song about an anxious trapeze artist. Motion sickness warning. [more inside]

posted by not_on_display at 9:31 PM PST - 1 comments

August 7

Langelier

another pop song [more inside]

posted by CarrotAdventure at 11:28 PM PST - 1 comments

A Grand Unslam

More music about Blaseball, this time the story of the time Morrow Doyle hit a grand slam in the 15th inning and shattered the universe. Time went backward, the play got erased by timelords, and the Shoe Thieves and their Event-sharing rivals Breath Mints have played one more game than the rest of the league, a game lost in an alternate branch of reality.

posted by cortex at 1:40 PM PST - 5 comments

August 5

Workman 9 to 5

A little bit of a song about Charleston Shoe Thieves player Workman Gloom, their dog and teammate (and Shoe Thieves pitcher) Beasley Gloom, and the life that is stealing shoes and playing blaseball. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 11:17 AM PST - 4 comments