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WIP song - candyglass
🕑 Added 2025-05-13 00:07:25 +0000 UTChey!!! I promised I'll be putting out works in progress for the new album I'm currently working on so here's one of those. I have a number of songs that are pretty far along but this one is especially in a decently shareable state.
My new solo record is somewhat different from where glass beach has left off, in many ways a return to sounds and ideas I had long abandoned (chiptune, punk, emo-ass emo, Cardiacs worship) but with a good bit of totally new ideas as well, all centered around weirdo pop songwriting. I really have not ever put this much time and energy into a solo record ever, at least since he's not with us anymore.
This particular track is one of the oldest which is why it's now so far along, and it sounds to my ears like a sort of transition between the dense post-punk/shoegaze influences of plastic death towards the new sound. It's named "candyglass" after the sugar-based substance sometimes used as a safer way to simulate glass shattering in movies. The song is about schadenfreude, and about planned obsolescence, though in a broader sense than the usual "your iPhone starts acting up right as the new iPhone model is released". It's actually one of the longer songs on this album, most of them hover around 3 minutes, though I of course couldn't help including at least one very long track.
The mix is probably a little rough around the edges and some vocal lines may be replaced. The instrumental is pretty much there. I'll do the final mix of all the songs on this record together at the very end of the process for the sake of cohesion & then we'll see about mastering. Not really trying to make this record blow your eardrums out, it's more about space and detail.
More WIP songs to come soon. Will also let yall know when this new solo project has a name, lol
Lyrics:
your fortress, concrete, steel, and candyglass
and in seconds flat, all it's over
would you say you're not affected by what's come to pass?
turned all ordinary exits into shallow fads
it's over right now
it's over now
you're a haunted house
full of dust and spiderwebs and you're crumbling
your teeth held siphons deep in diamond mines
and we'll never know how it started
would you say you're not offended to your famous friends?
as you stare through your reflection in a camera lens?
it's over right now
it's over now
it's over now
it's over now
you're a haunted house
stocks are headed south
full of dust and spiderwebs and you're crumbling
Comments
Caramel Treat
listening to this for the first time on my break at work and im smiling and kicking my feet. so good
c
!!! this is wonderful :3
Jovan E
i love you glass beach
