This year has been good for one thing; getting down to working through the backlog of demos and ideas actually putting some stuff out. For me it has come at expense of some of the challenges that I normally enter, but it has also been good to get tracks out in the wild so I can move on to newer backlog I have.
Interested to hear how everyone else got on this year, post a link to a playlist with everything you made or released this year. I'll start off with mine; I managed to get out 9 originals and 3 covers, I think I could have got another two in if I wasn't using my studio as an office space...
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https://scoorieboy.bandcamp.com/album/few-who-stop
I really like The Last Bell, it has a real Second Coming/Seahorses feel to it. Favourite mix is the first track Sink, I don't know who Spiral is, or if it is even a person (I assume it is the person who did the mix), but that is a killer opener!
For videos we used snippets recorded on our phones mixed with library footage
Here's 3 songs from the upcoming album, all recorded on an ancient iMac and cheap Mbox audio interface.
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Were bits aside from the normal YouTube stuff.
Oh and I got asked to play on mark Kelly's solo project
https://music.youtube.com/browse/MPREb_i00aM8lrSj4
Actually pretty much of it at my home, except some vocals and bits that were recorded at John's home.
I produced all the tracks. Half of these tracks were ones we have had played live (while doing some covers for fun) the others were just ideas in progress that we worked up in lock down. 99 Percent of it was recorded on my PC using Propellerhead Reason 11, A focusrite channel strip, Behringer desk, T-Racks Toontracks, and my drums, percussion, amps and guitar pedals, with our own band mics. We're pretty old, we've done pro stuff so we know a few old tricks. John (vocals, co writing, bass, some guitar) makes all the videos in his home studio which are all just iPhone + iMovies.
PS I used your old EJ Strat on our album. Lovely job.
https://johnpeacock.bandcamp.com/track/quietly-remarkable
Then I got together a bunch of instrumentals and released them under the pseudonym Trey Fontaine:
https://johnpeacock.bandcamp.com/album/trey-fontaine
Then I spent most of the rest of the year finishing up tracks I'd been working on for years, finally releasing it a couple of months ago:
https://johnpeacock.bandcamp.com/album/my-bumper-book-of-lies
(The cover is by the same illustrator that I recorded the first song for.)
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2JFa07062eoXa3erdkTNeL?si=7J0vOcl5SQGViMQeAKrxVw
Well . . .
32 albums of weird, ambient, glitchy fun, all of which can be listened to (and downloaded) for free.
https://sonickoalas.bandcamp.com/
You can pay if you wish (a few people have, and a huge thank you to them as no matter the amount it always makes me smile) but I don't mind if you don't.