Tag: songwriting
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About the Record: Foxchase – Moonlight
In Moonlight, we step directly into the moment when you realize that it’s time for a major shift. In this case it takes on the form of an overdue break-up where neither of you are quite right for each other. Even when we know this about our relationships, letting go of what you thought you…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Awake
Awake finds us towards the aftermath of our struggle clinging to our hope for a better future and the strength we need to make it through. We all find our strength and faith in different avenues, some find it from people, others in their chosen spiritual or religious deity, and others in music or art,…
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About the Record: Foxchase
At the time of writing this, Foxchase has been out for 3 months. It arrived officially on March 15th although, if you were subscribed here or to my Bandcamp page you got it a little earlier than that. It seems like enough time has passed that we can dive into talking about it. I like…
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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…
Neither Could Dylan 