DAYDREAM GENERATION 8 – OUT TODAY
Free Download: 38 tracks of the finest lo-fi folk pop psychedelic electronica and ‘other’ we could find from great little bands & artists & uke-strumming urchins all around the globe in two neat zip files of mp3s. Enjoy.
And here we go again. It’s been very nearly three years since the words “Daydream Generation” jumped into my head triggering the endless quest to go out and find the very best undiscovered DIY music there was to find, to cook the songs together in a couple of sizzling zips and serve them up to you on a virtual plate, dear and often strange listeners.
For several months back there I forgot why I was cooking – the compilations were almost getting too easy to put together, feedback was fading, and it was like “So what? Another compilation?” But putting together DG8 (with the help of Simon Piler and Becky N on recruitment duties), I remembered what it is I love about doing this – discovering new music that blows me away, bands and names that people on your street are unlikely to have heard of, yet more often that not, are as brilliant, and maybe even more relevant than whatever the mainstream decides is the flavour of the month. Music is like fast-food these days – mass-produced, served up lukewarm and tasteless with a fanfare of advertising and a side order of apathy. The thing I love best about home-cooking is that it is free – not free in the download sense (although this compilation is), but free in the sense that song-writers can take chances, and make music for the love of making music, free to throw whatever they can find at the backs of the cupboards of their minds into the creative frying pan. I think DG8 was the compilation that re-ignited my excitement and like the various cooks and kooks who appear here, I’ve always loved that we can take chances with the mix. On Daydream Generation 8 you will find songs to fill your belly, and songs that will leave a really weird taste in your mouth… but everything you will hear comes with the guarantee that it was cooked with love, and not to sell something big and shiny, or make somebody a quick buck. In particular thanks to the David-esque might of a little site called CLLCT putting our 8th compilation together has been less like mining, and a lot more like walking up to a big crazy tree and plucking colourful fruit from singing branches. Many of the bands and artists featuring on this compilation have been lifted from such shimmering limbs and without that site, I’d have been back crawling through the tunnels of the fallen Goliath that is MySpace hoping to find something, anything, someone, and all the while thinking ‘all this narcissism… the world is fucked.’ We could have made a thousand compilations from what we have discovered on CLLCT – and who knows, quite possibly we will.
But enough of all this small talk. Let’s get down to business and let the music do the talking. Without further ado allow me to introduce the 38 bands that make up Daydream Generation 8:
ADRIAN AARDVARK
Someone Else
I wonder how many of the world’s iPods kickstart on this guy? If “Someone Else” is anything to go by then the world could do a lot worse. Belted out with unreserved punk angst, this track treads the precarious tightrope of insanely catchy and flat out insane, and manages by the skin of its teeth to make it over to the other side intact. Songs like this are rarities, stolen from the seabed of a nightmare at the shadowy end of pop, and there is no doubting the sincerity. AA+
AKRYLLIC LOVE
Smiling Today
Let’s get through this and not mention the age thing, alright? If you haven’t heard of Akryllic Love by now, then I’ll bet you my matchbox house that someday (even if you hadn’t read this) then you would have. This is the kind of song-writer that someday you’ll tell your grandkids about, and somebody you might just be hearing a whole lot more from on this Quixodelic corner of the internet real soon. AL’s contribution ‘Smiling Today’ is (as expected) a two minute slice of slightly experimental DIY pop brilliance. This guy makes the idea of expressing yourself in an originally entertaining way look easy, each song like a bubble blown down the brain lanes. The most frightening part? He’s only…
ASSAULT SQUAD SAFETY SCISSORS
To try and break the fickle hearts of the romantics who wanna sing along
There’s something incredibly endearing about the whole Assault Squad Safety Scissors package. Mostly just one guy and his guitar singing really great pop songs, Oklahoma’s Andrew Allingham has an eye for really neat cartoon art, very interesting song titles, and melodies that make you stop and realise that you’ve vanished for the entire time you’ve been listening. Sometimes it feels like the world is awash with Lo-Fi bedroom pop songsmiths, but hey, that’s a good thing, right? Especially when they sound like this.
Assault Squad Safety Scissors on CLLCT
BECKY N
Coma Dream
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again just so as you know that I mean it. These compilations just wouldn’t be the same without a Becky N song. It would be like the Generation without the Daydream. ‘Coma Dream’ is taken from her second EP ‘4am Video Games’, recorded as part of the Utica Flower Company’s Invisible Box-Set project. A dark, twisting almost-spoken almost-sung tale of a poetic adventure that sounds too eerily real to be a dream, this song, with its urgent finger picking and claustrophobic intimacy is exactly why so many people can’t help but utterly dig her music.
BESPECKLED EGG
Summer Fruits
Years from now, this will go down as “the DG compilation where we finally gave into the ukulele”. Leading the 4-string nylon charge is Bespeckled Egg, singing out a poem about summer fruits (and apples). It has a meandering and innocently infectious life of its own, like a small pop jazz trumpeter searching for melodies and finding them and losing them again, before whispering one of the most curiously catchy little qualifiers you might ever hear on record. Walking past the fruit stands in your local grocery store might never be the same again. *Today this has been my favourite song on the entire compilation… I’m not saying it still will be tomorrow, but it’s always today that counts.
BETHESDA ANN
Birds
Now this is a spellbinding voice. All the way from a part of Texas where apparently they have pine-trees and may or may not wear cowboy hats, Bethesda Ann has a way of singing that sounds like it belongs in another world. ‘Birds’ is one of a whole load of great songs that appear on her record ‘Everything Is Gold’, a smoky, crackling, dreamlike ballad that defiantly defies genres on the needle-strewn forest floor. I’ve heard this song about twenty times in the last week and it still isn’t losing its other-worldly charm. If you’re not mesmerized by it then I will eat my own hat.
BRENDON HERTZ AND THE BURNT ORANGE CRAYONS
Sacrifice
From Brendon Hertz’s brilliant album ‘Sacrifice’, the title track in all its melancholic reggae glory. For the Invisible Box set we crammed together 12 records and from all of them this song was undoubtedly one of my favourites. I’d love to say it is representative of Brendon’s work, but actually every song of his is different, like a genre-hopping untraceable beat poet of the 21st century so if you like this and go looking for a reggae record, then go look somewhere else. If however you’re looking for a bit of everything, then now you know where to look.
BRIAN AND THE WORLD
Song For Elm Street
Ah, this guy knocked me clean off my cloud the first time I heard him, and when he sent me ‘Song For Elm Street’ (having clambered back up to cumulus heights) it knocked me straight back off again. Some people have to battle against every gene they inherited to make something of some audible worth, but there are others like Brian (far fewer in number) who sound as if they were born to write brilliant songs. It almost makes you nervous when you stumble across someone with such natural talent, like standing at the top of a musical flume that you know will hurtle downwards forever, making it near impossible to listen to anyone else for several months. Definitely one of my favourite songs from three years worth of compilations.
BROKEN MONO
Day By Day
As much as I love hearing something specially recorded for these compilations, I also like it when we provide a home for a long lost song. Grizzly psychedelic veteran of the DG compilations Broken Mono (you know the one I mean, cat’s head, Hendrix riffs) managed to dig up this ‘oldie from the days of 4-track’. ’Day By Day’ is a much more traditional guitar pop song than we’re accustomed to hearing from planet cat, but it’s just as kind and catchy to the ears.
THE CANADIETTES
Both Wearing Dentures
The songs of Cordelia Hazel sound like they belong to the middle of the 1990s. It is an interesting and maybe not even deliberate way of looking backwards to look forwards. While just about every man and his girlfriend and her dog try their best to recreate the sounds and sights of the undisputed heavyweight decade of music (60s), The Canadiettes are content to strum simple acoustic chord patterns for Cordelia to sing her lovely songs over. ‘Both Wearing Dentures’ is a pretty good example of how to pack a melodic punch just by sounding like yourself, and it’s very, very diggable.
CHANSONS DE GESTE
Not A Poet Be
Well everyone knows what I think of Syd Lane’s voice and songs so I’m not going to bore you by telling you how amazing both are again. Instead I’ll tell you about ‘Not A Poet Be’ from the recent Chansons De Geste record ‘It Begins In Beauty’. Originally this wasn’t one of the songs that leaped out of it (in my defence that record is packed with melodic gems), but over time I’ve increasingly found myself involuntarily hearing it between my ears, the soaring notes and weight of the words… DIY probably isn’t ever going to sound as pure as this again, so love it while you can.
CHELSEA MARIE
The Sixth Thing That Happened To Me
It’s a feat in itself being able to not take yourself too seriously and yet still produce relatively serious songs about being. It would seem that Chelsea Marie is happy to grab a guitar, press play on the tape recorder and just let it run while she pipes out unashamedly cute little existential folk songs. ‘The Sixth Thing That Happened To Me’ is a rare moment of the sort of song-writing genius that happens when the tape runs, something so simple and yet pretty fucking profound, the sort of song that snapshots a whole generation in little more than two minutes, bursting with fuck ups and hope for the future. Keep the tape rolling.
COOTIE SHOT
Bluetooths
I think this picture pretty much sums up the music of Cootie Shot, lo-fi pop on the living room floor with friends kicking around in the background. Once in a while you get a combination of voices that fit like both halves of a 2-piece jigsaw puzzle, and when Kia and Spence start harmonising over the uke’s on this brilliant little song about the corporate zombie technology that is bluetooth headsets, everything slots into place. Cootie Shot are the kind of band that should inspire everyone to learn a musical instrument and sing their hearts out about the universe around them. I don’t think I could ever get tired of listening to this.
THE CURIOUSLY STRONG PEPPERMINTS
Transcendentalism is Like Wow
From time to time you’ve got to take your hat off to ambition. The Curiously Strong Peppermint’s man behind the songs Jesse Miller, once said ‘I somehow have to top mid-60s-era Bob Dylan’ and as far as I’m concerned you can’t aim any higher than that. If ‘Transcendentalism…’ is anything to go by, then they’re at least on the right road. With a swirling, ringing, popping multi-coloured full band sound, this is pop music getting the full psychedelic treatment, producing something curiously fresh sounding. Taken in ample doses this sort of music is very good for getting your ears to breathe. Long may they walk backwards in this direction.
The Curiously Strong Peppermints on CLLCT
DEAD CANARIES
Karl Marx Lives In Lafayette Louisiana
I’ve spoken about this one at length in a recent review of the two new Dead Canaries offerings ‘Golden Sounds’ and ‘Modern Day Carpetbagger’. ‘Karl Marx…’ is one of the real stand-out songs of the two records, a bluesy Kinks-style surrealist anthem with Jon of the Atom drawling out his distinctive vocal, the song itself breaking into Beatle-esque sections. You all know what I think about this band and these records. Just go and download them and love it for yourself. It’s free!
FAILED SITCOM
Mortlake
Ah time. There’s just not enough of it and this guy more than anyone reminded me of that. Just half an hour more a day and I’d have realised several months ago how amazing the music of Failed Sitcom actually is. For a long time I just considered him to be the friendliest person on CLLCT, but from the first few seconds of this song I quickly realised that he’s also one of the most talented. Living proof that it is possible to fuse folk-pop with hip-hop beats, ‘Mortlake’ is a shimmering soundtrack to a dreamlike daze with fragile and seriously loveable vocals, perfect brain fodder on a cold sunny morning staggering to the bakers and nearly getting knocked over twice. The next free half an hour I get, I know exactly what I’m going to go and download.
THE FALLING FLOORS
Do You Feel Uptight?
The Falling Floors are fucking flying. I mean, if Jolan and Co keep improving and climbing at this rate over the next couple of years then we’re going to be so high up that we’re staring at the new ‘Revolver’. They were great to begin with, blasting out psych-tinted pop and roll painting by numbers little anthems… but if brand new track ‘Do You Feel Uptight’, and it’s frighteningly good predecessor (the album ‘Hey! Midnight’) are anything to go by, then you better buckle up because we’re in for a seriously bumpy ride upwards. Quick look out of the window to your left and through the clouds you will hear destination all-out psychedelic sunshine pop. Assume the crash position, because this is going to be fun, fun, fun.
FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION)
What Happened To Holiday?
Ladies and gentlemen I do believe this suggests that Bobby Rogan is recording again and for anyone who has ever listened to and loved a Figs record this is extremely good news. Rumours are the new record is going to be called ‘Say Okay’, although I may have just dreamed this up. Did I just dream it up? Hang on, let me check my email. No, I didn’t just dream it up and this toasty slice of home made pop would indicate that whatever it is he’s doing is going to be fucking great.
FOLK SINGING FATTIES WITH A TRUMPET
Trapfap
Some day Cameron Clarke will make me “An Introduction To The Various Musical Manifestations of Cameron Clarke”, but until that day I’m going to have to be content to steal minutes of more records than some collectives put together between them. This guy is really a one man song machine, and Folk Singing Fatties… is a file-sharing side project – ‘two dudes’ making great acoustic folk songs with comical lyrics (I hope) and a trumpet (apparently). ‘Trapfap’ is sung with poker faced brilliant harmonies and actually made me cry with laughter when I figured out what it is about. I’m not even sure if that’s cool. But it must be if Cameron’s connected to it?
Folk Singing Fatties With A Trumpet on CLLCT
FOXES IN FICTION
Snow Angels
Foxes In Fiction is a musical project from Warren Hildebrand, based in Toronto, and ‘Snow Angels’ is taken from a split EP he did with Glow Worm. As expected from anyone I’ve ever stumbled across based in the psychedelic capital of the world, his songs are predominantly electronic, but splashed with liberal lashings of that seemingly geographical specific sonic druggy spaced-out vocals. The results are supercool tracks like this, complimented with equally cool artwork. Well worth checking out if you like your experimental electronica.
GENERAL OGLETHORPE AND THE PANHANDLERS
Mary
Now this is a band to get excited about. Okay, so their name takes a lifetime to type, but that’s my only gripe. If this first track from their first demo ‘Mary’ is anything to go by then this four-piece from Georgia have got a bright melodic future ahead of them. The traditional drums and guitars format is given some bite and originality by the harmonic interplay of seriously amazing boy/girl vocals and a sweeping accordion that riffs away throughout. In many ways it sounds like an accomplished band who have been playing together for years, so it’s even more impressive that this is the first thing they’ve recorded together. Remember the name and if you need to write it down on the back on your hand then you might want to roll up your sleeve.
General Oglethorpe & the Panhandlers on MySpace
HANDWITHLEGS
I Hate Bugs
Now you know the world is getting weirder when HANDWITHLEGS records a pop song, but this here is no ordinary song, it is a song with a story. I’ll let him tell you it: “A few years ago J was studying in Germany and she bought a one-song CD off the street that just had this song on it, along with a photocopied insert with no information whatsoever. It’s been one of my all-time favourite songs since”. All I’ll say on this is that ‘I Hate Bugs’ is extremely catchy and it should come with a warning label. Which I why I just said that.
HANDWITHLEGS on Transatmospheric
IMPALED PEACH
Psycholicopter
‘Psycholicopter’ has grown on me more than any of the songs on DG8. I liked it from the first time I heard it, but I must have been in a rush because when I finally sat down in a quiet space and really listened to it from start to finish I was blown away by the intricate little uke melodies and understated vocal harmonies. Plus any song that goes ‘Ba Ba Ba’ convincingly at some point is always going to be a winner. Anyone who knows the guy behind the moniker (that’s Impaled without an ‘i’ by the way) won’t be surprised to hear something so poignantly assured, but for those of you who don’t then feel free to enjoy at an exponentially increased ratio to listens.
JAMES REDMOND
Tell Me
Here’s another guy who doesn’t need any introductions, throwing a bowling ball of melody your way. Fresh from my favourite cover on the White Christmas Album (‘Don’t Pass Me By’), Senor Redmond promised to attempt to get a new song to me by deadline day, but did. So you’re just going to have to make do with this little bowling ball of melodic magicalness he threw in my direction A LONG TIME after the deadline had passed. I’m sorry, I love a whole load of you, but I can’t think of anyone else who would get away with sending something in so late. Prepare to be a bowling pin.
JOHN LUDINGTON
All The World Is Fin
John Ludington is more than just one of the most popular artists from the Daydream Generation compilations, and he’s a lot more than a simple singer-songwriter. New tracks appearing straight off recording sessions for a new record on a mountain-top are complex, surreal beatnik stories of characters, with involved guitar structures and vocal melodies that rise and fall and zigzag between the octaves. ‘All The World is Fin’ is the title track from his forthcoming record and if anything it is even more surreal, and even more complex than anything that has gone before, like how Nick Drake would have sounded if he’d run away and joined the circus in his teenage years…
LENN9O9N
Ausdruck
It seems almost fitting that the guy with the coolest name in music might also resurrect the synthesizer as a credible musical instrument. Okay, I exaggerate a little (but not about the name) – the synth can be okay in doses, but to build entire songs and maybe someday a complete record out of that 80s machine of death? ‘Impossible’, I hear you say. Enter Lenn9o9n – an American in Italy who builds up layers of rhythm and synthetic sounds until it doesn’t just sound credible, it actually sounds amazing. ‘Ausdruck’ is dark and melodic, as much a composition as a song and a dangerous precedent. So remember kids: Synths are lethal equipment in the wrong hands. Listen to Lenn909n and if you can’t imagine yourself making music as immense as this, then please stick to the uke.
LOGAN GREENE AND THE BRICKS
Why Am I Lonely?
And now somebody who makes country sound cool. Logan Greene is a singer-songwriter from Tucson Arizona who knows how to write a tune or two. Capable of kicking up a shitstorm of pop electrically, or strumming you to sleep in your Great Grandfather’s rocking chair, here we’ve got him doing the former, backed by The Bricks causing hippies to clumsily line-dance into one another while tripping over bongs and rushing home barefoot across the fields to dig out their Gram Parson’s records.
Logan Greene & The Bricks on CLLCT
MAUREEN SILL
Trip (to Heaven)
Taken from the record ‘In Four Hours I Will Feel Completely Different’, this song of Maureen Sill’s is one sixth of why this little record is so great. Struggling to pick a song from it, I went and downloaded all six and for seventy-six hours it was all I could listen to. These very lo-fi and very brilliant folk pop songs are the real deal – acoustic guitars strum, drums roll, and everything pushes the songs forward while Maureen sings poetic snapshots of the world over the top (and apparently without a microphone). It is put simply, a lovely and utterly bewitching listen.
OLD KING
Let’s Go Outside
This is the first thing I’ve heard from Manchester’s Old King and the early prognosis is very good. Okay, so anything involving Jolan from The Falling Floors is going to have some credibility straight away, but these kids are a different entity. ‘Let’s Go Outside’ is a reverb drenched shoegaze/psych track full of shuffling drums, drone/fuzz, ringing guitars, chiming bells, and deliciously drawled vocals. As they said in the business, one to watch.
THE ORANGE DROP
Urban’s Front Yard
You’d be forgiven for thinking that we got this song from one of the three Orange Drop records of 2008, made in the eye of a psychedelic hurricane, when the world was there for the taking and anything seemed musically possible. But then they split up and went and formed new bands… didn’t they?Well actually they did, but now they’re back (woo hoo!) and psychedelic as ever. There are videos out there, and new songs emerging as the supersonic threesome/foursome start to stretch their hibernated limbs. ‘Urban’s Front Yard’ is a shiny new instrumental, and something of a shoegazer anthem. The psychedelic troubadours are back…
PINEAL INDOLE
aHH ooOOoo HHa
A comp just wouldn’t be a comp without a shot of lo-fi psych-pop noise experimentation and on DG8 it falls to the brilliant Pineal Indole. Describing his project as ’self-indulgent’, actually this contribution sounds far from it. The brilliantly titled ‘aHH ooOOoo HHa’ is a fuzzy scuzzy lalalala-song with beats and bleeps and plenty of effects, loads of fun to listen to and the kind of thing that makes you wish you could rewind the hands of time back to the days of bong.
THE REAL BURNOUTS
Accused of Babbling
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder… along come The Real Burnouts. Now the Burnouts are weird at the best of times, but ‘Accused of Babbling’ from the album ‘Endeavouring To Make God A Liar’ is chomping on the limits of sanity. Personally I love it. There’s nobody quite like these guys to throw you a curve ball, then a fast ball, then another curve ball, and finally swallow the ball whole and run away into the woods to never be seen again. Currently promoting the theatrical masterpiece ‘The Disinfection of Walter’, complete with puppets, psychedelic lighting and live actors at a theatre probably nowhere near you, it means a lot them taking time out to throw us a song-bone like this.
SEALOVE
My Life Is One Big IDK
From ‘Mondays at Sunday Creek’, this song is just one example from two albums worth of examples of the Lo-Fi pop cuteness that is Sea Love. I imagine that it must be near impossible for anyone to hate this one-girl band’s music, with kooky little folk songs and catchy melodies played on a pink ukulele. ‘My Life is One Big IDK’ is a twenty year old’s wry look back over the shoulder of life with a shrug and a grin.
SIMON PILER
Kochia
Here’s a rare glimpse through the giant telescope of time at Simon Piler pre-Simon Piler and the Atom Band. Salvaged from a solo EP called ‘Test’, this track ‘Kochia’ is one of a handful of somewhat atypical not-so-experimental Piler magic. Simon himself has conceded that ‘Test’ is perhaps his most accessible piece of work, straightforward (or rather more straightforward) folk guitar song structures with the much more typical all-guts Piler vocals. Here, you can borrow the magic telescope for a couple of minutes while you listen to it, but please remember to return it to Dr Simon Piler c/o Cabin 5, The Mardi, somewhere N/W of Antarctica. Thankee.
STOMACH ULCERS
Free
Jordan is the lead singer and guitarist in Canadian band N/A, and Stomach Ulcers is his solo project. Frequently found mooching around on old couches in the middle of nowhere solving near unsolvable crimes, when he does turn his hand to picking up an acoustic and strumming his thoughts, he does a pretty good job. ‘Free’ is a mellow and tongue firmly planted in cheek folky-grunge song about not wanting to face up to the future and about loving mooching around. I think he pretty much sums up almost everyone I knew fifteen years ago in a musical nutshell.
TUCK SON
Chakra
Michael King makes seriously interesting music. The last man onto the Daydream bus, in a fog of smoke, clutching a battered tape recorder and a grin under his arm. ‘Chakra’ is a kaleidoscopic dance of ghosts around a fire in a living room that melts away revealing ancient trees with spooky faces, while the lamp in the corner becomes a setting sun a-blazing. The whole thing sounds like a lot of acoustic instruments making an electric sound as outside in the street Tuck Son drops himself into a seat near the back of the bus spilling the grin and pressing his face to the frosted glass of the window while the engine begins to rumble. And meanwhile back in the living room the ghosts dance on.
WEIRD RIBS
North Cave
This compilation’s compulsory electronic seven minute soundscape is brought to you courtesy of Weird Ribs aka Joseph Cox. Everybody from time to time needs a track like this in their lives – something to be to, something that makes you want to close your eyes and balance on ledges, go outside barefoot in the cold to count the stars, or simply lie there really wasted in space to breathe.
THE WHEELIES
Pinocchio
Well it looks like this is it for me. I’m not saying I won’t rummage around in the back catalogue for a song if we’re seriously short on a compilation in future, but hopefully that’s not going to happen and our quixodelic inbox is so full with contributions that I’ll be knocking people back rather than scrabbling around at the last minute for tracks. After fifteen (or is it sixteen?) years The Wheelies are finally no more, and this is the last song I/we ever recorded called ‘Pinocchio’. I was very unhappy when I wrote it. But I’m happy now.
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Thanks to everyone who helped put Daydream Generation 8 together, especially Simon and Becky.
See you all again for another sometime soon.
smally
I’ve just taken my first listen through and there’s so many great tracks on here. I’m honoured to be in such great company.
This feels like an amazing introduction to so much great music, it makes me wonder how I haven’t heard some of these people before (Tuck Son springs to mind).
It’s such a shame that’s the last we’ll hear from The Wheelies, but it’s a lovely way to say goodbye.
Awesome write-ups on everyone. You’re so good, smally, so good.
Cheers for taking the time out to post fellas
Agreed 110% on the Tuck Son shout Sam
and Ed, I can only get better, I hope :)
Just listening to the first disc now. First impression is that Bethesda Ann is the one standout track, but who can really pick, eh? And as I’m writing this, Simon sneaks up on me and gives me something to think about…
Great show, everyone! And I do mean everyone!!
that’s spooky, I was just involuntarily whistling the Bethesda Ann track when you posted that…
My favourites on these things change day to day – yesterday it was a battle between Lenn9o9n and Bespeckled Egg, today I woke up and haven’t been able to get General Oglethorpe out of my head… I’ve been listening to this thing for a week now, and I’ve had more favourites in that week than I’ve had good nights sleeps in the last 5 years
Favorites include Akryllic Love, General Oglethorpe, Impaled Peach, Logan Greene, Old King, The WHEELIES!!!, Falling Floors, Brian and the world, first 30 seconds or so of Hanwithlegs is killa’ and the mixing/quality of Failed Sitcom’s is awesome.
Of course
Smally, you’re a bad mofo…nuff said. Thank you. (i have a crush on your voice)
My singing voice? Sheet… even my wife doesn’t have a crush on my singing voice. Still, I’ll admit that it’s infinitely better than my talking voice… you can hear it here: http://www.daydreamgeneration.com/MP3/guidedtour.mp3 if you ever want to get rid of that crush…
Haha…
yeeeeeeah, i guess it’s that accent
smooth and full flavored, its the type of risk you’re willing to take because the worst case scenario is still better than not doing it at all. cheers
Bopcrons, y’all!
I’m enjoying this listen wholeheartedly.
Paul – cryptic as ever, like a psychedelic Wittgenstein
Simon – Bopcrons back at ya
Thanks for taking the time out to leave some feedback folks, makes it all worthwhile (even when I don’t quite understand what you’re saying).
Inspired, encouraged, regenerated.
We’re still familiarizing ourselves, hearing who’s who. The bold, experimental sounds of The Falling Floors, gorgeousness going on over here with Foxes In Fiction. And Failed Sitcom?! Glad they made it in time. Syncopated, passionate storytelling of General Oglethorpe & the Panhandlers…
Smally, I’ve already copied and pasted your dank write-up onto multiple sites. Thank you!
“crazy little worms!”
Cheers John :)
General Oglethorpe and the Panhandlers – now there are some people destined for great musical things… I can’t get over that’s their first demo/recording. Bloody brilliant.