Here We Are Again
By Abludo on January 9, 2022 5:08 pm
Hi again everyone! It's good to be back. Or at least, I hope so. I don't feel quite so creative at the moment, or perhaps I am just holding my music to higher standards...
When I look back on 2018 and 2020 WBs, I remember how much joy it gave me to be creating these songs, and loving them so much. Now, as life comes with ever more responsibilities, so the pressure builds on my songs being worth my time, and worth prioritising over other things like getting a good job, spending time with my family or my fiancée.
This pressure is making it very difficult to be free in my music and to feel satisfied with my life right now. Nevertheless, I've really given it a go for week 1, and tried to show what direction my music taste and style have gone this past year. I have gotten swept into the psychedelic indie pop side of things! Tame Impala's 2020 album The Slow Rush really leaked into this one ngl.
A few notable things:
- The fact that I recorded the underlaying drums - I'm pretty happy with how tight and clean they sound - and I recently got some tape plugins to saturate my hi-hats nicely.
- The cowbells are actually sampled from some actual cows I came across when visiting the Swiss Alps last year, and I love them! (I also included my vacuum cleaner turning off in the percussion, not that you can really hear it)
- I bought a couple of new guitars in 2021 which feature in this song, including a Hofner Violin bass which has really improved my bass sound! Love it.
- Finally the lyrics are more abstract than my usual ones, written around the topic I've described:
Here we are again
Turn it up full send
Don't know what to do
Or the words to choose
Gonna just pretend
That I'm not like them
Gotta make it new
But it's getting harder to.
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
Groovy start to what'll hopefully be a groovy year for everybody. Happy 2022!