424LYFE!

So the next batch of music that I will share comes from the summer of 2009, when I was feeling very nostalgic for the early 90's salad days of underground DIY rock. In an effort to recreate that "olde tyme feeling," I bought a replica of my old Tascam 424 portastudio 4-track cassette recorder on e-bay. The following album was recorded entirely on the 4-track, with just a few minor adjustments of levels on the computer at the end.

If any of these songs remind you of the early 90's, that probably because some of them were written in the early 90's. The music was, anyway. I re-wrote most of the lyrics, because pimply 14-year-old me was not exactly Bob Dylan. But my original idea was that I would document ALL of my old songs in their original format (cassette hiss and all). I gave up on the idea about 8 songs in. I'm not really super excited about this recording in general, really, and it has taught me that nostalgia is not the greatest conduit of creativity.