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1.
Independent 01:50
It's taking all I got to give Just for me to try and live How can I save something for you Deep in this hole? Don't you know? I don't want for you to go Everything I try to do Seems I'm losing sight of you I just got to say Tell me what you want Do you wanna be independent? Do you wanna be alone? When I call you on the phone Many times we change How we're feeling based on the weather Whether this will be I will try to run and hide So long as I am alive I'm always harder on myself Than you can stand Where we'll go Neither of us seems to know Even though we try so hard Will we have to play apart I just got to say Tell me what you want Do you wanna be independent? Do you wanna be alone? When I call you on the phone Many times we change How we're feeling based on the weather Whether this will be
2.
Editor 02:13
Lie to me even though I know you said They wouldn't it just makes me want to Go away from all of this This is breaking up my heart And I wanna go so far Even if it kills me I don't want to stay here The place is made up out of fears When I'm walking down the street All the voices try to Lie to me Even though I know you said they wouldn't All the voices try to Lie to me Even though I know you said they wouldn't It just makes me want to Leave I wish that you would see You see me accept defeat From the jaws of victory Now I'll never get to be The person that you want Is an idiot savant When I'm stuck inside my mind All the voices try to Lie to me Even though I know you said they wouldn't All the voices try to Lie to me Even though I know you said they wouldn't It just makes me wanna
3.
Go Away 02:08
You know that it's hard Maybe it's crazy To take this so far As you're taking me Running away with all of my agency I don't like what your problems do to me Recite the power of proxy In a bargaining game I'll make you go away You never really wanted to take me with you You walked out all on your own I know it's a thing I know you’ll reward me For going along with all of this You're so punishing I'm your property It's what you mean to me Do just what you please Make me into your doll I'll make you go away I never really wanted to take you with me I walked out all on your own I'll make you go away
4.
Television 02:25
The things I see are hurting me I close my eyes and I try to breathe Why do I reject your thinking? Why am I always sinking? It's taking over all our time Once it's over all we find Sights and sounds that are not ours Lost and spent up hours I'm feeling bad for the tenth time today Because I don't wanna play Like the people on television Television I turn it off it makes me scoff It burns my eyes it makes me cough How is it that you stand it? How do they all demand it? I don't go where the people know They're always right, and they've got to fight Makes me low to be so alone Makes me want to just stay home I'm feeling bad for the tenth time today Because I don't wanna play Like the people on television Television I know we've felt disagreements and pain Whenever I change All the channels on television Television
5.
Beaut 03:32
There’s beauty everywhere if you know where to look Seems like I gave more than I took I was making the time, I was losing my mind Who am I gonna go home to at night? The most beautiful person was right in front of me She gazed in my eyes and I knew right then That no one else would do Would do Nothing will be the same once we go through the door No matter how insane what we thought was pure I was running around, I was going to ground Why am I gonna go out on the town? This beautiful person saved me You're beautiful to me In spite of what you see I wish that you would listen You're beautiful to me I wish that you would listen You've really got a chance to Get me to romance you You're beautiful to me I wish that you would listen You're really gonna make it Whoever's gotta take it You're beautiful to me In spite of what you see You've really got a chance to Get me to romance you You're beautiful to me In spite of what they say You're really gonna make it Whoever's gotta take it You're beautiful to me In spite of what you see I really wanna go there Wherever you would show there You're beautiful to me In spite of what they see I wish that you would listen It's you that I been missing

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HUMAN RESOURCES and THE DIVISION of LABOUR

NONROUTINE COGNITIVE

This album was written in 2016, and a few songs appeared on a compilation album in 2018. I started everything on the guitar, then transposed the songs into Guitar Tab Pro, exported midi and dropped it into Fruity Loops, where I added beats, basslines, arpeggios, and solos

I exported audio and brought the project over to ProTools and hired Ben Williams, Isaac Bishop and Lightnin' Ray to replace my beats.
After Teresa Lemaire added flute on "Go Away", I mixed and mastered the whole deal

These songs are a little more power pop that my usual fare, but still filtered through my grungy post punk lens. I'm talking about relationships, letdowns, and my own capacity for disassociation

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released December 17, 2020

Ben Williams: Drums on "Independent", "Editor" and "Go Away"
Lightnin' Ray Jackson - Drums on "Television"
Isaac Bishop: Drums on "Beaut"
Teresa Lemaire: Flute on "Go Away"
Matt Greenia: Bass, Guitar, Drums

Special thanks to Dave MIksch

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Greenia at Diamond Street Studios

Artwork by Matt Greenia

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