Tag: canadian music
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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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Acceptance: About the Record
With our debut album “Acceptance” due out on April 7th, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the album in my own words and dive a little further into the songs that make up the album. If you’re familiar with my earlier projects, you might already know how this’ll go; I did…
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