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Andrew's Demo Tape

by Andrew Hughes

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Énouement 02:16
When in the night A pale yellow light It's less of a fight It's less black and white Here inside Sweltering heat Hygiene repeat It's no daily thing So say what you will About me
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They call me careless And how to I respond to this I tell myself but no one else Nobody wants to hear Has a decent pair of ears They think everything is weird, I mean They complain about the freezing spring Here we stand Together in a no man’s land You're faraway and close at hand You’re sleeping and I’m “Sailing” fast So when I wreck the boat Will I sink or will I float Oh, the book I wish I wrote What’s a word without a note
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Don't shine your lights on me, okay? Astigmatized, twisted eyes, prescribed (What does it look like? What does it look like?) Oh, tell me if I was mistaken I'm seeing twice, but not quite-that's not quite right I watch the wheels come back my way They used to rock but that didn't last I watch the wheels come back my way They used to roll but that didn't last I watch the wheels come back my way Set me alight before I fade away
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Untitled 02:40
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You Later 04:18
I'm only passing through Don't tell me what to do Now I don't know what to do I don't know what to say Every single day But I say it anyway Subconscious optimist Apologetic pessimist Here it is, at your service [And I don't want to say who it was, because it makes me anxious when I say it. This is a song that Pete Townshend and I wrote in Big Sur, California outside a Guitar Center. We just kinda threw this one down. It's a good record. This is a good version, inspired by a wonderful tune. I'm still talking for some reason. Filler words. Filler filler filler words. I guess you could say I was one of those people who forgot to let go.] Nothing much has changed Had a few, but back to one again Don't know what I expected Here's to another verse Or do they call it the chorus? Who cares?
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Later Still 04:01
I change my mind every day And I have no idea what to say To you, every day, when you know... I'm invalidated, aha Invalidated, aha Invalidated, aha ha The feeling is temporary If it isn't boring, it's frustrating I'm tired of waiting I'm invalidated, aha Invalidated, aha Invalidated-a-dated-a
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about

I never made a conscious decision to take my practice to the next level: "recording". What happened instead was an impulsive decision to open Audacity to try something out... And five years or so later, I have ten tracks to share with you all.

I want to thank my demo friends, all those people who told me when I had something unique on my hands, or when I was ripping off Paul McCartney or the Smiths without realizing.

I used to think about what my first album would be like. Multiple times I wrote down tracklists in notebooks which piled up to twenty or so songs. Most of those are half-finished ideas, even now. Some songs were rushed, some took years of thought. The result is what I've titled a demo tape. Here's what I have to offer. And please contact me if you like what you hear. Please do!

Who knows what I'll think of this "album" five years from now? These tracks pull together a lot of my thoughts and emotions at this moment: fear, impatience, anxiety, disillusionment, and heck, there's more where that came from.

Note (4/2/21): The Spotify edition of this album may sound a bit different, and that's because I re-opened my old project files, which had some battle scars after being salvaged from a hard drive I thought was totally dead. Some of the original plugins weren't working, so that version will have a few minor differences. But the Bandcamp version is (and will remain) the files I uploaded the night I released it. Thanks for understanding.

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released June 25, 2018

Andrew Hughes - All instruments, mixing/unmastering/"""production"""
Timi Tamminen - Album Cover Design

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