This Thing With You & Me
Liner Notes
Another short one - a little play in the Db harmonic minor scale.
To have reached 7 tracks (a half FAWM if you like!) feels like quite an achievement for me having only started on the 15th. I've got my family flying back home tomorrow so this could well be it for this year. I've got at least two fully formed backing tracks I've not posted yet; if I can find some time to write and record some lyrics for those, that'd be the icing on the cake.
Loads of listening to catch up on now!
Lyrics
All the flowers wilt and die without the rain and sun The forests slowly turn to sand and everyone is gone The oceans all evaporate becoming one with land And countries become meaningless like the memory of your hand
All the beasts of the earth, all those fishes in the sea They all knew nothing of this thing with you and me
Something that was once so loved, still craving that attention Standing there in plain sight yet not worthy of a mention
All the beasts of the earth, all those fishes in the sea They all knew nothing of this thing with you and me
Comments
This is beautiful and haunting, the track flows really well. Agree with Ad, you really do remind me of John Grant :)
Back in the 80s, a bit of a one hit wonder - Black - had a superb synth pop song Wonderful Life. This is like an evocation of what should have been its follow up.
There's a David Bazan quality to this one, and not just your voice. Mournful to the point of seeming betrayed.
Love that slight wobble in the arpeggios, there's a dream-like vibe to this one that fits perfectly with the mysterious vibes in the lyric. Lovely stuff! And I really liked the other #apocalypse one too, I just couldn't resist that comment, sorry 😅
Lovely. It has that sort of downbeat synth-pop thing going on that you get from John Grant sometimes. The lyrics are bleak, but captivatingly so.
Love a bit of tuned percussion, that first verse with just your vocal and the xylo(?) sounds great, and love the introduction of the woodwind and pad that follows. Love the way that the arp transitions between different instruments/synth sounds throughout, really cool. Vocal is fantastic on this and a great lyric even if it is sadly devoid of emus
Holy crap. This acts like a sort of a lyrical, ecological, non-anthropocentric refutation of ‘God Only Knows’. It’s crazy good. I love how effortlessly the melody sounds in the unsettling harmonic territories you’ve discovered.
This is great! Those vocals are so dang smooth and crooning, the scale you chose is moody and intriguing, and the instrumentation is built up so nicely.
Gorgeous chordal movements, and really liking the exploration of harmonic minor, especially in your vocals. It builds so well, with a relaxed reflective pace to match. The sombre clarinet breaks are a real highlight for me. And another apocalyptic themed song, sounds like you might have a concept album coming on!