Tuesday, February 17, 2009

New Swim Party song



Francine was nice enough to shoot this with my camera while we were up at Spaceland last night.

As of now, the song doesn't have an official name, but I feel like it should be something totally pretentious. "Wherein Swim Party Succumbs to Their Post-Rock Tendencies" or something equally absurd. We'll see.

I really like it, but then I'm biased because it's the first keyboard part I've really written on my own, in the sense of "here's the chord progression, see if you can work something out." I like what I've figured out so far, but there's definitely room for expansion as I get less nervous about screwing up complicated piano lines on stage and you know, actually start to play something complicated...

And oh, sorry the song clocks in at almost 8 minutes. That's how post-rock rolls.

8 comments:

  1. ooh i like! sorry i missed you... come back in april!

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  2. Maybe you guys could name it, "we are the dreamers of dreams"

    Bonus points for the Willy Wonka reference?

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  3. when i put my headphones on to listen to this, i forgot that itunes was playing sigur ros. it took me several minutes to figure out where the odd vocals were coming from.

    even without vonlenska in the background, i like it.

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  4. Awesome - glad you guys like it! I now have visions of starting my own post-rock band...

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  5. Already quitting the band to start your own project, huh?

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  6. Hahaha nope. Side project maybe? Like I don't already have enough (non-music) side projects...

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  7. Come on, nobody in San Diego has just one band!

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  8. Point taken. I think the minimum is around 3?

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