Won Holiday Demo Review
I was working on something else for another band entirely, took a break, and got hit in the face by a chorus. I stopped what I was doing immediately and pretty much finished the song.
If I am presently aware of anything it’s to stop everything and get this shizz down immediately.
Between reading about what Jeff Tweedy thinks a song is, and what Noel Gallagher thinks it is, and what Keith Richards thinks it is, and where any of it comes from, the real answer is I do not know. I do not know what any of it means. I do not know where it comes from. I just trust that it comes from somewhere, and I trust that if I set myself up right, it will show up.
This new one is the fifth song in the batch, and I believe it is a good one. This is the kind of thing I have been writing toward. The first two, three, and four were getting better incrementally. Five feels like the one. You only need four to five of these a year if you are releasing singles, which is the modern way in the age of Spotify and streaming.
I thought I had to get it out to the group last night, but I was off by a day.
But it is out. And suspensefuly, I found myself without a computer because I am switching computers for work, so I just had to drop my iPhone demo into SoundCloud with no post-processing-anything.
It is arresting for me to listen, to say the least. It is so present and so out there. I mean, I could not even put reverb on it. I may have never put anything out there that was totally processing-free.
It feels super naked and exposed, and it is kind of cool. Now that the software is loaded onto the new home computer, I am not going to fix it. I am just going to leave it alone and see what happens. It already has plenty of listens, so we will see. But just like with songwriting, you go with what you have, you put it out there, and—honestly—I do not even know why you put it out there.
But it is out there. Naked as can be.