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Hold Out (for the revolution)
SV's new jaunty pop song about urban ennui.
Make it Out Alive
Acoustic demo of a song that's supposed to be a lot louder and noisier and uhh drummier. Written last night, recorded in my living room this morning. Take your meds, loves
Mooney Doctor II
Yep, I'm still making songs about Blaseball players. This one's about a player who lived on the moon, until she and all the rest of the Kansas City Breath Mints died. [more inside]
Say Something
Straight-ahead robot rocker? [more inside]
Winnie Hess (Learns To Party)
Another song about a "famous" Blaseball player: Winnie Hess, one of the most feared pitchers in the league. [more inside]
Not A God
Wrote this in the morning, made it into a quick TikTok, recorded the demo this afternoon. Figuring out this whole magical "pre-chorus" thingie
A Heavy Lift
A song against the powerful. Or the all-powerful. Or about screaming into the void. Hey, piano! [more inside]
Unknowable Knowns
I released a new EP today! All songs I recorded in and around my house in the last year. This song started off much more stripped down and it feels all grown up now. That's my brother on the drums
Reconstruction (Nothing but the Rain)
This is a "reconstruction" of my most popular song, "Nothing but the Rain," that came out last fall. Formerly a more mellow folksy song, the vocals are different and there is more energetic instrumentation. Can be found in all the usual digital places (Spotify, iTunes, Soundcloud, etc.) under my name "MK Ellison." Enjoy!
Down a Hole
Little bit o' indie, little bit o' sadboy, whole lotta pitchy singing. There's a swear in there, so watch out! [more inside]
So Tired Of
If you like Superchunk and the Ramones and wished they had recorded together.
Citypages
A song about surviving a pretty wild and punk rock youth. I wrote and recorded this under the name Dame Kraft. It will be cleaned up and made better and eventually released.
Tuscaloosa
All your big dreams, you can't go wrong. Get fit with the AC on... [more inside]
Nightshade
She's a spy, a good one too. Speciality — sneaking up on you... [more inside]
Get Real Girl
Chin up.
Keep acting like you've got it made.
We both know you ain't.
You're laughing but it's true. [more inside]
Scarlet Johansson's Human Suit
All this time, dipping your fingers in my bowl... [more inside]
Perilous Motion
Here's a chewy demo, work in progress.
If you like Seam and Superchunk this is in that vein. [more inside]
Asleep at the Knife
Turns out my version of the serenity prayer involves a lot more quantum sci-fi and psycho-killer imagery.
Been working on this for a good while, trying to figure out how to program drums for a slow 6/8 time. Pretty happy with how it finally came together, but I'd love some pointers. Still worried it's a bit too saturated, but that's kinda my MO. Lyrics in the fold. [more inside]
Take It With You
Re-Recording of a song I wrote some 20 years ago. Happy Sad Spacey Dream Pop.
Like Math
The finished version of a song I posted back in February. Way louder this time around.
Just thought y'all might be interested in hearing how this progressed once I got real drums, bass and guitar on it. It feels like I recorded that original demo at once yesterday and a million years ago.
More of this kind of thing here.
The Killing Floor
This is a really rough early home studio demo of a song in development for my new recording project, The Wishing Well Divers' "Tragicomic Americana." Ironically, just as I've been working on this song, which thematically concerns stigmitization and marginalization, and well, being face down on the floor, I had a health scare last night that left me literally face down on the bathroom floor for a half hour.
I've got no job, health insurance, family support, or cash cushion right now, so this song has taken on new personal meanings for me just since I started recording it a couple of days ago, with new worries about health problems and their potential to make it harder to find work and insurance. [more inside]
My Secret Marilyn Monroe
About 24 years ago, between 1992--1995 or so, I played in a popular art rock band in Panama City, Florida, called Killing Darlings. An old friend recently gave me access to his stash of the lo-fi recordings we produced over the years with that band, and this is one of them. There's a longer playlist of recovered tracks over here on Sound Cloud. [more inside]
The First Kiss
Pretty guitars and synths and lots of delay and a deep and lovely bass line to boot.
Instance - go with it
Here's the B side "go with it" from my latest project, Instance. [more inside]
Way Back
Some kind of indie rock song. [more inside]
H. Factor
Some of the most inspiring music out there focuses on the positive elements of humankind and society, blah blah blah. But there comes a time when even musicians' gearing towards that tendency get fed up and write something outside of their 'regular' thematic 'boundaries'. This seems to be the case with this Ummagma song. Enjoy and visit the band on Facebook...
Balkanofellini + bonus @Ummagma
There is one thing that I really admire in certain artists and that is flexibility. I love it when a band can perform across a spectrum of genres and especially when they manage to pull it off well. Starting out with Ummagma's Balkanofellini, which seems appropriately named when you envision those awesome soundtracks to all of Federico Fellini's films (by Nino Rota), combined with all the Balkan eclecticism of Emir Kusturica's films (soundtrack by Goran Bregović). Well there you have it. A hybrid. Thought you might also like a few quick offerings of other Ummagma tracks, so here is Human Factora">, Risky, NIMBY, and Upsurd, Orion, BFD and Outside
stupid sexy monsters
Punked up waltz about how to avoid bedbugs. Still a little iffy on how the vocals are mixed. Thoughts? [more inside]
Merry Xmas
Did my best Yo La Tengo impression for this misanthropic (and so timely!) track about the holidays. [more inside]
Ambiguous Sense of the Future
Powerful swirling and driving full sonic force, enveloped in a mishmash of postrock, shoegaze, and noise rock. [more inside]
BFD
Eastern European countries are home to remarkably sounding native folk music, and it is particularly welcome when any element, or even remnant, of that is mixed in with any form modern music. What a grande fusion it can be. That is what we feel happened with this song.
Pick me Up
Sredni Vashtar - The Loop
Four chords, a guitar loop and loping drums. Trying to keep things simple for once. More here.
Brilliant Pebbles
White Light Music Night
Late night and off-kilter, a love song for the otherwise apathetic. Recorded at rehearsal in South London by Sredni Vashtar and then (lightly) polished. One day we'd like to record this properly (do the vocals properly for example). One day. [more inside]
Titry
Actors are always celebrated for their chameleonic ability to change characters and roles. Ummagma possesses this quality, among a small number of shape-shifting bands currently out there. This song is very different from anything else created by Ummagma. Hope you enjoy this. [more inside]
Photographer
There is such a thing as light-imbued melancholy. This song shows that @Ummagma is among a cozy handful of bands nowadays who seem to thrive on achieving that combination. You can find Ummagma here too. [more inside]
Human Factor (revisited)
The lyrics to this Ummagma song seem very timely considering what is happening in the world these days, with a bed of music that drums up intensity. You might particularly enjoy the ending.
Flame
Fibonacci
Another venture into songwriting from our band, radiateur. This one is a Frankenstein song comprising of riffs and motifs written over the years and assembled at leisure. [more inside]
BFD
Reminiscent of the Peter Gabriel and Deep Forest contribution to the film "Strange Days", this Ummagma track offers an eclectic earful of modernity meets tradition, complete with Carpathian whistle and balanced out with successive male and female vocals. [more inside]
Back to You
Somewhat reminiscent of Sonic Youth's cover of the Carpenters' "Superstar", this song still seems to have a unique quality all of its own. When we recorded this Ummagma track, we didn't know about that cover but since then, this has been the feedback received and we also feel a similarity there too. What do you think? I'm also posting the lyrics here. [more inside]
Sometimes With You
Sometimes with you, I forget myself and laugh! (headphones recommended)
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Virgin Ears & Old Man Lies
This is my attempt at a GBV-style rocker. I put a guitar solo at the end as (kind of) a goof. I hope the musical irony gods will forgive me. Mixing this was a real bitch. I think I could go back and mix this 20 more times and still not be happy, but I gotta let it go. Any specific mixing/EQ advice on this is appreciated. [more inside]
Corporate Culture
I don't hate my job. Really, I don't. [more inside]
Forget Regret
song about drugs & cops &tc [more inside]
U
An love letter to the letter "U" [more inside]
In A Room
Cover I did hastily yesterday afternoon of The House of Love's beautiful song "In A Room". [more inside]
Forcefield
The power of passive aggression, in song form. Meant for listening loud in headphones, although what isn't?
Cinematheque
An old New Blind National's song from when we were listening to a lot of Spoon. [more inside]
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