FAWM: "EVERYBODY'S OUT TO GET ME!!!"

EVERYBODY'S OUT TO GET ME!!!

Skirmish: TURN OFF ALL THE NOISE (@corinnecurcio)

Liner Notes

#4track #electronic

WARNING: this song gets really clippy and distorted after the 1:55 mark. Keep an eye on your volume knob!!

Uh... yeah, this isn't my best. I tried writing a song how paranoid I am every time I go out for walks at day or night, and I tried implementing those feelings into the music too but then it just kinda freaked me out too much and now I don't like it. HOWEVER, a song IS a song, and since I wrote this with intent to be part of a skirmish I feel like I kinda have to put this one up. My bad if you don't like it either - I feel like it's the act of creating a song-shaped thing that matters more than the quality of the song, and since I made a thing I figure it's in the spirit of FAWM to post that thing. Hopefully y'all see what I mean by that.

I accidentally pushed up the gain slider while doing the crazy synthetic kick/tom stuff at the end of the drum track and then I was like "eh, what the hell, I'll lean into it" which is why it like, distorts like crazy into that giant mess of sound at the end. I didn't actually run out of tape even though it cuts off, I just thought the loud bit went on for way too long and I thought it could be cool to cut it off like that. I think I only had like 20 seconds of tape left when it was done though so like, not really much I can do with that... time to open up a new blank cassette!

Lyrics

Birds call from the treetops
Am I being watched?
Trucks passing by
Could be part of a sign

Like a particle being observed
Not the first time I've said
Someone's spectating far away
I need eyes on the back of my head

Everybody's out to get me
I never had a choice
Still biting inside my mouth
'Til they turn off all the noise

Everybody's out to get me
I never had a choice
Still twisting at crunched-up leaves
'Til they turn off all the noise

Comments

@raspberry33 6d

Hypnotic groove, and great vocal delivery. Love the roto-toms that come in around 1:50, Definitely could extend and mix this as @autoclamp says: March is for Mixing.

@hummingbear 6d

Very original take on the prompt, never thought of birds as spies. Liking the instrumental ending as well.

@thedutchwidows 6d

This has such a cool vibe - what 4 track do you use (I've been messing with a Fostex and a Tascam this year, though not very productively!). The ending's cool! Loved this!

@mhorning 6d

Birds aren't real, if it flies it spies.

Very cool, spoken word, beatnick vibe.

@autoclamp 6d

Mixing is for March (or March is for mixing, whatever). The unexpected pauses are just so cool, and this is positively dripping with mood and attitude. I think the distorted ending is extremely awesome, honestly, and the sudden cut off... you are very good at wielding both noise and silence to great effect. I really enjoyed it.