Monday, January 31st, 2022
lies:
The other day someone posted a question for her followers: If you could only pick one, what would you say is your favorite song? I had to give it some thought, and went through a lot of songs and artists in my head. But then I rephrased the question to myself this way: If I was only going to get to hear one song, one last time, and then no songs forever after that, what would it be? And then I knew the answer: “Family Life” by The Blue Nile.
I don’t think it’s a choice that many people will recognize. The Blue Nile was kind of obscure, and Peace at Last (the album the song is from) didn’t do well commercially.
But the song resonates with me emotionally in a way that’s hard to explain. It relates to my experience as a child, living through my parents’ multiple divorces and remarriages, my elder siblings leaving, growing up isolated and bereft. And then as an adult, building my own family, but surrounded by the spectre of other marriages and families that broke apart, dads moving out to depressing apartments, living through holidays that, despite the best efforts of everyone involved, became less a celebration of family and more a painful reminder of its absence.
It’s a song without much hope. It looks backward rather than forward. But it’s an honest song, one that helps connect me to experiences that have defined who I am and that I don’t want to forget.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2022
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Monday, January 17th, 2022
lies:
Listen/purchase: Go OutSide by SPC ECO
This album was recorded between June 20 – July 14 2021
All songs were recorded with Ableton Live 11
The track listing is a chronological order of the time they were written and recorded to accentuate and keep the ebb and flow of the songs as they developed, some might say it’s an art thing. Rose sang all of the vocals in one day on Sunday 4th of July 2021
This recording is part of the SPC ECO 2021 monthly series. All copyrights reserved and owned by SPC ECO – BOFC Music
Original image taken from lesphotoscarrees.tumblr.com
Rendered by Pixel Dust
All songs registered PPLUK – PRS
Times Like These
released July 16, 2021
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
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Monday, September 6th, 2021
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Thursday, August 5th, 2021
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Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Listen/purchase: Times Like These by SPC ECO
It’s times like these
That I wish I was Shakespeare
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
Listen/purchase: Go OutSide by SPC ECO
This album was recorded between June 20 – July 14 2021
All songs were recorded with Ableton Live 11
The track listing is a chronological order of the time they were written and recorded to accentuate and keep the ebb and flow of the songs as they developed, some might say it’s an art thing. Rose sang all of the vocals in one day on Sunday 4th of July 2021
This recording is part of the SPC ECO 2021 monthly series. All copyrights reserved and owned by SPC ECO – BOFC Music
Original image taken from lesphotoscarrees.tumblr.com
Rendered by Pixel Dust
All songs registered PPLUK – PRS
Times Like These
released July 16, 2021
Reposted from https://lies.tumblr.com/post/657481937370365952.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2021
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