FIVE EIGHTHS TO HOME, by DEAD MAN'S SPELLING

FIVE EIGHTHS TO HOME

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1.	DECEPTION UNDER THE SURFACE I 00:12	buy track
2.	DECEPTION UNDER THE SURFACE II 00:51	buy track
3.	DECEPTION UNDER THE SURFACE III 00:51	buy track
4.	DECEPTION UNDER THE SURFACE IV 00:51	buy track
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8.	A SLIVER FOR MONSTERS I 00:12	buy track
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14.	A SLIVER FOR MONSTERS VII 00:51	buy track
15.	MINISCULE YACHTS I 00:12	buy track
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22.	CHASING THE DESPERADOS I 00:12	buy track
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29.	THE NONEXISTENCE OF BINARIES I 00:12	buy track
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TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

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recorded at THE HAUNTED OWL, 23/12 - 28/12

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one of the things that stuck with me, at the beginning of the decade, when i was in a far darker place than now

someone had tagged me in one of those facebook group notes. you know, where you @ someone, it picks from your most mentioned people, and you answer three questions about them, post it as a note

i was in this drama society at university, where ultimately i didn't fit in (but didn't know that at the time.) one person tagged me in one of these notes.

for everyone else, they had said something like "oh they're pretty, oh they're cool, etc". but for me they said "i admire his relentless urge and desire to be creative".

and at that time, where my only desire was to be within a community, accepted, i kind of took that as an insult? like, why would i receive something different. i just wanted to be accepted - and anyway, i wasn't being given the opportunities within that context to be creative

but now i look back on it with distance and realise, looking from the periphery at everyone else involved there - he was absolutely right, and was paying me the biggest compliment possible.

so, thanks, to said person - i still think about that all of the time.

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this was made as part of itch.io's EP JAM #04 - available here: itch.io/jam/ep-04

in the first half of the 2010s, i was so obsessed with perfection. everything being 100% as i wanted it to - because that was the ideal pounded into my skull.

i've gradually, painfully learned to avoid that. perfection is the enemy of good.

are these the most polished things i've ever recorded? no. but they're what happens when i see what seems like an impossible task for me in the context of my current life - "record an EP in a week!" - and instead of backing down, decide to do it.

and also, i like them.

one of the inspirations for this was doseone's soundtrack to DISCROOM - a bunch of musical miniatures that accompany this weird humble bundle game. the music for that was these fifty second, highly structured, thirty two bar segments. i took that as a structure and built something weirder, more abstract, less musical.

if nothing else, i learned some stuff doing this. a lot of stuff, actually. and i enjoyed it. if those two things are true, everything else is bonus.
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what's next? who knows.

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released December 29, 2019

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songs. memory. feeling. trauma. death.

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