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Free music (that you can pay for) #13: Youth Is Wasted On The Young 23 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
I wrote this one at the same time as Don’t Let Me Lose Tonight, fully expecting to finish it in 2007. I missed that deadline a little bit, but the version you can hear now isn’t dramatically different...
Free music (that you can pay for) #12: You Don’t Have To Be Alone 23 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
This is the second of the two Kasino songs we’ve rebooted. The original dates back to 2000, 2001, and it sounded awfully like Snow Patrol’s Run; Snow Patrol hadn’t actually written Run back then, and ...
Free music (that you can pay for) #11: Five Fingers a Fist 22 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm
The lyric seems pretty obvious to me but maybe it isn’t all that obvious to anybody else: the two fingers in the lyric mean two shots of alcohol. It’s about someone getting drunk quickly and looking f...
Free music (that you can pay for) #10: Good Times, High Times and Hard Times 21 Aug 2013 | 02:19 pm
In the last song I was trying to be Michael Stipe. In this one, I’m Rihanna. I’ll pause a moment to let you get over the horror of that mental image. David wrote this one, his riff really reminding ...
Free music (that you can pay for) #9: Let It Go 20 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
Oh, this one’s fuuuuuuuuun. Let It Go started off as a spectacularly cheesy 70s keyboard thing that David concocted, and we’ve tried to keep its fundamental cheesiness throughout the song. That expla...
Free music (that you can pay for) #8: And When The Clouds 19 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
The clouds here are metaphorical, of course. The lyric’s about the constant internal critic that we all have, and which really ought to shut the fuck up. I read an interview a long time ago that sugg...
Bored, but not bored enough 19 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm
I was very pleased with this column I wrote for .net about boredom. I spent most of last night glued to a screen watching a Twitter stream, refreshing my RSS feeds, clicking on various interesting li...
Free music (that you can pay for) #7: Papercuts 17 Aug 2013 | 02:29 pm
This one’s a good example of why musicians need to collaborate with one another: I wrote this on an acoustic guitar, and it’s a perfectly decent acoustic guitar song – but it’s a much, much better son...
Free music (that you can pay for) #6: Broken Bottles 16 Aug 2013 | 01:16 pm
This is our Elbow song. Elbow have been a big influence on me: their Seldom Seen Kid is a tremendous record. It’s music for grown-ups that isn’t a pale imitation of former glories, that isn’t trying t...
Free music (that you can pay for) #5: Don’t Let Me Lose Tonight 16 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Don’t Let Me Lose Tonight was supposed to come out six years ago. After a bit of a break from music I’d started writing again, and the imminent arrival of my baby daughter meant I had a deadline too –...
