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He Builds a Wall
layered acoustic guitars, dumb drum beat, proggy bass, double-tracked vocal
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Alternative Pop Rock
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Pinwheel
rolling internal rhymes to a two-step beat
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Folk/Acoustic Rock/Americana
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For Laura
One voice one guitar
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Folk/Acoustic Rock/Americana
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Let Go
A fingerpicked intro with vocal expands into a Beatle-esque rave up.
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60s folk-pop
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Flying Dream
Heavy on the Indian influence, lyrical content is a composite of my favorite flying dreams, "sitar" complements of Yamaha Motif, crazy fuzz solo, very active rhythm section. All self-done.
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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Of the Stars
Punk guitars with megaphone vocals descending from spaceships with a political message from the future.
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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The Moon
Indian raga-like acoustic guitar figure, melodic bass line, crooner vocal, retro keys (really, an 80's Casio), Hendrix quoted in outtro solo.
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Acoustic guitar pop
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Your Ocean
A blues number with guitar, sax, an attempt to sing like Lou Reed, clean-toned blues licks.
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Alternative Blues
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Trip
Slow-motion landslide of guitars, or slow-mo of rocket exhaust if you prefer up to down. Notched wah+delay solo over odd-meter when things get weird. That's when you might hear sleigh bells, and they're real.
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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You're Not the Solution (Learning to Love Myself)
Croonerville with a nice breezy feel. Soft and easy, but with a serious-sided lyric.
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R&B/Soul
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Other Mechanical Mother
sparse arrangement, acoustic guitar, distorted bass, and a tumbling beat. I thought ended up sounding a bit like Arcade Fire. Except - the solo outtro is like no one I can think of.
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Acoustic guitar pop
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Flowers Bang Bang
Sludgy bass line, laconic vocals with more than a touch of irony, retro guitars, a stab at Kraut rock.
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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Flower of the City
An attempt to write like Syd Barret, and to sound as if the track came from Madcap Laughs or Opal.
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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The Big Freeze
Best example of what can happen when the stars align. Except all that was there to describe was desolate. Don't stop listening too soon - WAIT FOR IT!
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acoustic indie pop
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The Fun (acoustic)
performance acoustic and voice
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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Sailing Away
a march beat, sonorous Ebow lead, poetic lyric, spidery raga-like acoustic phrases: an artist surveys the world and returns to four, blue walls
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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Lonely Star
Horn intro sets the theme. A lighthearted bluesy base-line set to a shuffle/march. Many orchestral, layered parts. A trip out to the cosmos on one chord finishes the ride, with a Miles Davis-like horn leading pied piper style.
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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Leaving Jill Behind
A tiny song with nursery rhyme simplicity.
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Ballad
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Have you seen the sun?
An attempt to build upon John Lennon's "sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun." Moody piece but ultimately hopeful. Dark fuzz solo over a proggy Pink Floyd bass line ala Animals.
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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Take Me
My take on a fifties style progression
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Ballad
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Nobody Knows How the Tune Goes
uptempo acoustic guitar, retro keys, tribal-like kick, spoken lyrics,
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Acoustic Rock
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The Great Divide
Chugging acoustic, dark lyrical content, a Neil Young-like one-note (nearly) solo.
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Alternative Acoustic Rock
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Angel
Big stereo guitars, ascending weirdo-spooky piano, thumping bass, astral outsider lyrics
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Ballad
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The Fun
An attempt to produce the acoustic version "The Fun" more completely. Drums, strings, woodwinds, electric guitars, washy symbols...
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Alternative Retro and Psychedelic
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I want to thank you
Verby and dark acoustic guitar loop, simple and direct lyric, followed by a long outtro of sustain-y and moody piano.
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Alt Nouveau
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No One
A kind of answer to Sir McCartney's Fool on the Hill, made obvious by re-purposing the melody mostly unchanged.
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Acoustic guitar pop
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