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Music Video Release: Tapes
Hi! The other day I shot a music video for Acceptance’s first track, Tapes. Being a completely DIY solo artist, sometimes it’s really tricky to find new ways to put together the “full band” experience but I’m always really surprised by how much you can get away with using limited tools. The video for Tapes…
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Acceptance: Wishing Well
We’ve come to the last track on the album – Wishing Well. Lyrically Wishing Well is one I’m most proud of and it’s also one of the tracks on the album that sounds way different than when it first started. I think it’s full of cool little unexpected surprises and the lead repeating guitar line,…
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Acceptance: Without You
Without You wasn’t a song I wrote for this album, but it was entirely too fitting not to include it when it came down to selecting final tracks and I’d been wanting for a long time to work a full-band production of it. I’m still often on the fence about whether the song is better…
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Acceptance: Happy
Today we get to dive into the track that really spearheaded the direction of the Acceptance album as a whole – Happy! I was having trouble sleeping one night to the point of absolute frustration. I have difficulty sometimes turning my brain off and allowing me any sort of time to just exist – there…
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Acceptance: Loose Change
Today’s blog centers on track 7: Loose Change. Loose Change is a super simple song based on a true story. There isn’t much to say about the overall production choices here because the aim was to keep it all pretty minimal so that that story itself is the biggest focus. I’m always a little hesitant…
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Acceptance: Casual Conversation
Let’s keep it light today and just have a little chat, yea? Casual Conversation is the only track that on this album that I started the production with a riff instead of a lyric. Well, sort of. I had written the riff that you hear repeating throughout a ways back and been sitting on it…
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Acceptance: Dismal
If Skeleton found us buried deep in the ground at the back of an abandoned cave, then Dismal brings with it the spirit of eager spelunkers on their first grand expedition. It was vitally important that the tone of this track carry itself with more of a carefree fresh air quality because lyrically, we’re still…
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Acceptance: Skeleton
Skeleton is probably the most emotionally heavy song on Acceptance, but its production is pretty bare bones and simple (like a skeleton!). It was originally written with the intention of it being only an acoustic guitar and vocal track but after experimenting with some vocal effects, I thought it was better served to incorporate some…
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Acceptance: To Be Loved
I nearly decided to keep To Be Loved as an acoustic-only production and it would have been the only one on the album that I gave that treatment for, but ultimately as you can hear on the record, of course I didn’t do that. As much as I enjoy playing this song stripped down on…
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Acceptance: Chemical Therapy
Chemical Therapy was a track that when I first recorded a demo of it acoustically, seemed to have this really dark and Earthy vibe to it. I wanted to capture that on the record so I kept the progression the same as when I first tried to run through it and then built some layers…
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