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This demo emerged from a chord progression I wrote on guitar. Unlike most songs I write, this one's entire structure and all of its parts were written first before recording a single thing. I then endured the tedium of composing--note by note, one mouse click at a time--the MIDI drums, basses, keys, strings (viola, violin and cello), synth pads and some ambient samples I created which are difficult to hear, but are certainly there. The way I wrote this song is very similar to the way "Hello, my Dark" ('Phantasmagoric Menagerie' 2015) was written insofar as I wrote the entire thing on guitar first and could hear the final version of the song with completed instrumentation/arrangements before recording anything. "Evil Dream Repeater" differs in the way it was demoed/recorded. I've never mixed anything in Ableton before, but it just sort of happened that way. I accidentally quantized and warped the single audio track (guitars and vocals mixed on my 24 track and exported to Ableton) so I couldn't rely on the grid, a nightmare when trying to sync MIDI tracks to a slightly stretched audio track. The lyrics are incomplete, but what is written so far is still very much so in the lyrical style I typically write songs in--surrealistic, impressionistic, dark and ambiguous.

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Evil dream recurring still
Damage is done, do what we will
Rolling hills inside my head

Dead in the dirt
Eaten up by worms
I can't believe
That I was on the Earth
And to think that all I
Cared about was some girl

I just want this evil
Dream out of my head so
I can finally get the
Sleep that I have needed

Father, won't you let me
Drown here in my bed?
Mother is in the other room
Cleaning up your mess

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from This is Not a Psych​-​Rock Record (demos), released January 18, 2016
Jason Williams: Electric/acoustic guitars, (MIDI programmed) drums, basses, strings (viola, violin and cello), synths/keys and vocals/lyrics

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Animal Holograms Chicago, Illinois

Psych-rock sextet sometimes labeled a grungegaze "outfit?" making dream pop music for downtrodden scumbag droves sporting mothball, over-sized flannel & fashionably expressive shredded, sewer-stained, denim heirlooms called "My fucking jeans, you fascist!". We're admittedly naive to the grunge/90's alt rock revival subculture apparently all the rage suddenly...

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