EARLIER by guitarsenault

The tracks on this set are all from 2005-2006 when I got an actual laptop. It was for writing and researching papers for art history so naturally i started making songs on the included music software. I was listening to A LOT of Fantomas at the time and was under the influence of "Fingertips" and "Five Percent For Nothing." That's why all the songs are short. I hadn't even gotten into Minutemen yet. So young. So foolish.

So what does this mass of weird have to do with the onslaught of guitar savagery I usually trade in? Hey who can say but it's where I acquired my (very limited) skill with multitrack recording/music making. Prior to this anytime I tried to use a cassette 4-track I would pass out and wake up days later miles from my home, dazed. "How did I arrive here," I would think, trying to remember but only encountering a red veil of pain and suffering.

But I digress.

I made these when I was younger and somehow smarter AND dumber. I wanted to put these out somehow but It was different back then. Now I can do right by that younger self, full of hope, blissfully unaware of the future. These 17 songs are the best of the almost 60 tracks I made. You're welcome for sparing you some clunkers and clams. Yikes. I'm not that much of a completist.

Track 17 was co-written with local legends, Gamgee, hallowed be their name, their kingdom come, their will be done on Earth as it is in Felton.

"For almost three entire decades, there has been a low grade disturbance within the oort cloud...a sound signal that seems intelligent but most of us assume is a mask for a more untethered type cosmic awareness. Few have heard the sound outside of those of us here today, fewer than that have pieces of their mind to put back together again."