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/Nobody Wants To Be You
/Album, May 2006

 


Nobody Wants To Be You

  NOTES // REVIEWS // IMAGES MP3 Downloads Sold at 160kbps.
1_ Electricity Solo 3:30 // LYRICS // NOTES
2_ No Surprises 3:40 // LYRICS // NOTES
3_ Letters Of Complaint
[feat. Mark Kingston]
5:09 // LYRICS // NOTES
4_ Domestic Utopia
[feat. Mark Kingston]
3:50 // LYRICS // NOTES
5_ Postal Aid Package From Mum
[feat. Shane Adamczak]
4:27 // LYRICS // NOTES
6_ Broken Toys 2:54 // LYRICS // NOTES
7_ One Size Fits Most 4:10 // LYRICS // NOTES
8_ Old People Like To Fuck 2:13 // LYRICS // NOTES
9_ Loudspeeka
[feat. Johnny Hotrod]
[Album Mix]
2:32 // LYRICS // NOTES
10_ Big Night Out In Rockingham
[feat. Lo-Key Fu]
[Album Mix]
7:23 // LYRICS // NOTES
  BONUS MP3 ONLY TRACK:  
  White Haze 4:08 // LYRICS // NOTES
I recorded most of this album in late 2005 - early 2006, except for No Surprises, which was done in early 2005 with Roly Skender and passed around as a two-track CDR b/w Letters Of Complaint, which became quite popular. Track 3&4 were recorded for the Descend Here Destroy All Ornaments EP and Postal Aid Package From Mum was a re-mixing of an earlier recording done sometime in mid-2004. The rest were put together during that time in my house and, with the exception of Loudspeeka, using my rather limited setup. Well, not that limited; I was combining FruityLoops, Ableton Live and Cubase and a stack of plugins but as with all my recordings to date, my computer chugs with too many tracks so a lot of the time it's a very slow process to get everything perfect.

Anyway, I'm really happy with this record, it's a really good snapshot of where I was at at the time. There is an out-take waiting to be re-mixed in my house of a version of Getting Aware I attempted with Audio Cephlon but we didn't really get into it 'cos at the time I think I was being too much of a lazy shit and wanting him to do all the boring shit like EQ'ing for me both because I didn't want to do it and because I was still learning how to do that kind of thing. I learned quite a lot from him about Cubase though and without those sessions, I doubt I would've got through the recording.

There's a lot of light and shade here that people don't often think of with my work as I seem to have become known for being a bit full on; which is fine, I guess. I mean, people think of most performers in a 2D way, it's only when they scratch the surface that they begin to see other stuff. But if you listen to this record, I think you'd get a pretty good general idea of who I am. Obviously you wouldn't be a Tomás Ford expert or anything, but you'd certainly have insight into quite a lot of the ways that I think. 

19/05/2008

 

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