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Started by Goaty, 23 April, 2014, 08:45:08 AM

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Keef Monkey

Listened through the new Lana Del Rey album today and I'll second that recommendation. Lovely, sweepingly lush and melancholic, just what I needed this morning!

I, Cosh

Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 18 June, 2014, 12:12:45 AM
and a new Boris album which the genre-cats are calling atmospheric shoegazey post-rock which translates roughly as "absorbing or boring depending on your mood" - reviews have sadly been erring toward the latter although I love a bit of Boris so I'll get it eventually I imagine.
I'm enjoying this one a lot. Maybe a little bit slick on the surface, but it's a good mixture of their various styles. I don't know whether it helps that I prefer the amorphous, droney stuff to the Heavy Rocks silliness.
We never really die.

Keef Monkey

Just going to pop this here in the name of self-pimping! It's my new music thing POPOLAC, just some home demos I'm knocking together with the aim of maybe putting a band together for gigs once I've got enough songs kicking around. It's pretty different to my old band - it's not instrumental and not as riff-based, although The Box gets very riffy midway through. It's also taking me a really long time to get songs together and mixed because I'm doing everything myself and just here and there when I get the chance, so the third song has been 'almost done' for a couple of months now.

Anyway, I'm waffling, please give it a listen!

https://soundcloud.com/popolacmusic

Third Estate Ned

That's a quality production, right there, to say you did it yourself and not in a studio. Good voice too. Is that drum programme you've used or did you record live drums? I left a comment on your SC page.

Keef Monkey

Thanks! Did it on my PC in Pro Tools which meant that (apart from the guitars and vocals) I could do the whole thing silently with headphones and not annoy the neighbours too much. Took a while and a few mixes to get it sounding like that, still a bit rough in places but lessons have been learned that I can hopefully carry into the next one!

Programmed the drums on Xpand which came with the virtual instruments pack bundled with the Pro Tools software. I did look at some other drum software but it's all pretty pricey so wanted to see what sort of results the free one could give first. Really glad you asked that because it's good to know they're not immediately apparent as being fake, happy with that result!

Thanks for the comments, and cheers for giving it a listen.

CrazyFoxMachine

Lawd knows why your last band was instrumental you've got a good set of pipes on you there Keith.   Got a nice 90s alt rock feel to it - both are good but I love the build of The Box particularly. More of this sort of thing!

Keef Monkey

Thanks Owen, really encouraging to know you like it as I know you're a man of discerning taste! Will crack on with some more and see what happens :)

Keef Monkey

Have popped another song on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/popolacmusic/our-lady-of-good-counsel

The other ones took me a while to put together, so thought it'd be fun to knock out a relatively quick, fast and dirty rock song (the production is a little rougher but it seemed to fit the song nicely)!

Zarjazzer

They're bloody good songs and production Keef monkey.

especially nice atmosphere on the last one. The Box.
The Justice department has a good re-education programme-it's called five to ten in the cubes.

Keef Monkey

Cheers Zarjazzer! The Box is probably the one I'm happiest with so far to be honest, and the closest to the sound/style I'm trying to go for. Got another couple of tracks sort of halfway finished but struggling to find the time so might be a while before they're done!

Keef Monkey

It's taken me a while to get another song recorded, started out as an instrumental film scorey thing so spent a while deciding whether to bother with vocals. Think it's the first track I've properly used my DREDD octaver pedal on which was fun!

https://soundcloud.com/popolacmusic/monster-closet


Keef Monkey

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Uploaded another new song - https://soundcloud.com/popolacmusic/rattle

It's a bit of a cheesy driving rock song, just because the last one was relatively sedate, felt like rocking out a bit! There are parts I find cringey, but really happy with others so parped it onto Soundcloud anyway.

Keef Monkey

My fiancee and myself have a bit of a heavy rock band for a few years now, but we only gig and record pretty sporadically (hard to find the time to do it seriously nowadays). Just recorded our first new song in a very, very long time so will share it here in case riffy vaguely proggy metallic rock is anyone's thing.

https://soundcloud.com/teresabanks/cosmic-jaw

Greg M.

Quote from: Keef Monkey on 20 May, 2015, 10:20:05 AM
Just recorded our first new song in a very, very long time so will share it here in case riffy vaguely proggy metallic rock is anyone's thing.

https://soundcloud.com/teresabanks/cosmic-jaw

I'm about a week late in commenting on this, but I did want to say I enjoyed your track - getting a bit of a cool Page Hamilton vibe off the vocals.

Keef Monkey

Quote from: Greg M. on 29 May, 2015, 05:01:10 PM
Quote from: Keef Monkey on 20 May, 2015, 10:20:05 AM
Just recorded our first new song in a very, very long time so will share it here in case riffy vaguely proggy metallic rock is anyone's thing.

https://soundcloud.com/teresabanks/cosmic-jaw


I'm about a week late in commenting on this, but I did want to say I enjoyed your track - getting a bit of a cool Page Hamilton vibe off the vocals.

Nice, that's a comparison we're very happy with! Thanks for giving it a listen, glad you liked it. Hoping to get some more recorded soon!