NEW MUSIC 2020 DUMP
Hey! I put up some new songs I recorded at home on Quote Unquote and Bandcamp. I’m hoping to keep recording more and drop ‘em in here and I’ll let ya know next time I do. Felt like the wrong time to try and write a record, but also a weird time to not create anything. Also, I wrote this a few days ago intended y’all to be the first people who heard this, but then Substack had to verify that I wasn’t a scammy spammy boy so sorry this is getting to y’all TWO DAYS LATE shit.
For a few reasons there is no plan to put any of these on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Given that the collection will (theoretically) be growing, those platforms don’t really make a whole lot of sense. I am also remembering a conversation I had with Mike Huguenor about the dangers of the phrase “every record is on Spotify” or whatever - how we know that EVERY record is not on there, but we say that because it’s probably 95% of music. CLOSE ENOUGH! How that erases the 5% of music (some of which are great records) that didn’t make it’s way to those services (Snuff’s Demmamussabebonk?! Marcia Griffiths’ Rock My Soul?! That first Carrie Nations record?!?!?) just because they’re not on a specific platform.
I wanted to do something outside of that to remind myself that options exist outside of these platforms we’re kettled into. These songs are free, I’m not trying to monetize them, if you’re like BUT I WANNA PAY please donate that money to a charity. Any money that gets donated to be will be put towards charitable causes, but more fees will get taken out as it exchanges an extra hand MY HAND ok.
I started recording these songs mostly in July as part of a “demo pact” Chris Farren and I made to get ourselves making music again. Once I realized I wanted to put them out in the world I asked Jeremy Hunter to play brass on them, Laura Stevenson to sing some harmonies and I tried to mix ‘em good. I mastered them with a Tascam 388 tape machine that I bought with hopes of making a dub record right when the pandemic hit. That didn’t happen obviously, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to respool the tape when I let it run out, but I’m stoked with how it turned out.
These songs are weird and sad but I’m weird and sad so it all works out in the end huh hope ya like it TTYL
— Jeff