Both Ways
You remember the first time you figured out how to flip the tape over and make music play backwards? Well, I do. It was when I made this song.
You remember the first time you figured out how to flip the tape over and make music play backwards? Well, I do. It was when I made this song.
An attempt at writing a love letter to a girl I’d just started dating.
Sheer jest. I think August and I were up late, just playing song ideas. You can hear him singing a little backup in there.
The melody came from my discovery that I could randomly drop blocks onto the grid in a music app, quantize it and tweak it a bit, and it wouldn’t sound half bad. Featuring disposable drums at the mercy of a three-button mouse.
The idea here was to base a simple song around the effect of a handheld tape recorder being paused and un-paused repeatedly, during a recording. Most of the vocal sounds were August. It sounds strange now.