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Song Studies II (August​–​December 2022​)​: we're blobs on a rock feeling loud through what can reach you

by Feel Loudly

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1.
Is it COVID, or is it just 2022 malaise? 02:15
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Is it COVID, Or is it just 2022 malaise? Are we human, Or are we meme dancer in our graves? I’ll fall to failure As I melt myself on a clock face Translating languages Oh, futility wrapped in tentacular grace Woah, I'll fall to failure Come so far, had such a good run Blowing the race right at the finish line Getting over it soon But I can’t seem to feel my feet down in my pod goo Fall to failure and end up all alone Woah, I'll fall to failure Fall to failure and end up all alone
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Count your freckles on the wall 02:05
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Count your freckles on the wall In the car you’ll wait for me Newly caffeinated In the car you’ll wait for me As we cast off for better days In the car you’ll wait for me Go beyond, we'll see We'll see Set it off I'm going home
3.
Maybe we were trapped in the moment that we needed to level up 01:51
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Maybe we, we were trapped in the moment That we needed to level up Looking back on freshman year Who’d ever thought that we’d end up here? We were pissed off, broken open And sometimes silence says more than words can And sometimes it don’t Maybe that’s what happened with it an hour ago
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What about love? 03:08
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What about the running in circles, lost? What about our friends sitting on the sidewalk? What about this feeling of moving on? Post-it countdowns I’m peeling off the wall What about me needs this more than now? What about orange skies and rubble? What about our new face of growing old? While we’re drowning outside these bubbles, now What are you gonna do today to show up at your job? What about our lost futures and the moments when they get caught up? What about love in the time of [insert whatever plague you want]? Yeah what about love? If we tried to make it far away Running ourselves past the fence Feel it flow like fires through the Pentagon While we live-stream from the refugee camps And I’m going home But it all falls down Yeah, it all falls down And oh I’m going home But it all falls down Yeah, it all falls down And oh What about love? What about love? What about love? What about love?
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Love in the time of algorithms (theme 2) 00:57
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Yeah it's Love in the time of algorithms Love in the time of absent vision Love in the time of loud feelings While we thoroughly design against them happening Love as art which transcends Love as basement show with friends Love as people being people We're blobs on a rock, feeling loud through what can you reach you
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i hate october 00:53
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I hate October So glad it's over

about

This one was basically all written and ready to record back in August, but the start of the school year made it difficult to find the headspace and energy to do so. I also finally got a new computer, so there were learning curves due to switching away from 13 year old hardware & recording software and more technological hurdles than I anticipated. In a way, these tracks depict that learning process and sound different based on how and when they were recorded.

Thematically, I’m working a lot within ideas of live within times of chaos. I’m determined to have 2023 be a year of input moderation. If I can finish the year with the “output > input” inequality proving true, then it will be a successful one. Within these inputs though, one thing that’s cool to do is to lineup all the content and try to identify any thematic through-lines. My through-lines all revolve around that “love in the time of [insert whatever plague you want]” theme (yes, even Love Island Australia fits this bill). These are the themes that are going to be driving my next full length album, which these song studies are building towards.

This is part of an ongoing effort of publishing "artistic studies" EPs to chronicle and humanize my artistic process in between albums.

Personnel:
Natty Ward - music & lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass, beatbox, recording/mixing/mastering, album artwork (with assistance from DALL·E 2)

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released January 13, 2023

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