1. Ennui Somber (Intro)

2. Fantasies of Cold Beer, Warm Beach, Indifferent Breezes (feat. Nate Patterson)

3. Oh No, Pirates

4. Percoset Party

5. I Thought Things Would Be Different When We Met Again

6. 010101 (From The Future Instrumental)

7. Frantzgiving

8. breakbeat lullaby (Instrumental)

9. Feeling Useless

10. Buried Not Yet Dead

11. 01010101

12. Falling Birds (Instrumental)

13. We Are F*cking Around Now (Originally by Laine Rettmer)

14. What’s Smoking Who? (Soundtrack)

15. Troubling Dreams

16. DVD Menu

17. Things Must Get Better Than This (Instrumental)

18. 16-Bit World, 16-Bit Boss

19. I Feel The Change Becoming (Instrumental)

Download: [ZIP] 93.1MB

The below might be the new instrumentals cover and title. I might switch it up again.

Right now, the mix down version is about an hour long:

And here’s a real pretty ballad:

dontdownloadme “I Thought Things Would Be Different When We Met Again” by Citizen Nowhere off Citizen Nowhere, non canonical, purple & smoke

On 6/25/2009 I made a “non canonical” cover that was so cool-looking to me that it basically justified the existence of a non canonical album.

In case you don’t know about the Citizen Nowhere project, it is going to end up being 8 albums. It started in 2003 and you can get six of the albums by CLICKING OVER TO THIS POST and the seventh at THIS POST.

That means there is one more to go and the post directly below this one (at least if you are reading this on the Listen Or Don’t section of my blog), you can hear “Loose Lips,” which will be on Citizen Nowhere 8.

But “Loose Lips” got me thinking about how I wanted 8 to sound, and I realized that the nearly-complete album I thought was #8 really wasn’t. It was a bunch of tracks that didn’t fit. Most of them were about the Recession, some were left over from previous albums, but it wasn’t fitting together and it wasn’t providing a listening experience.

So: there will be two additional “albums” of material before I close out Citizen Nowhere with the 8th album. This track, “Escape Sometime” will be on the disc called: non canonical, b-sides. There will also be a non canonical, instrumentals that will have - you guessed it - instrumentals only.

Despite the preview/”leak” track here, the B-Sides album will probably come out second.

non canonical, instrumentals will be the first release, and you will get that within the next two weeks. It’s really neat. I almost thought about making a cover that looked like it was an original motion picture soundtrack to a movie I’ll never make…

Hmmmm.

Maybe I’ll still do that.

If I find a way to escape sometime…

dontdownloadme “Escape Sometime” by Citizen Nowhere off Citizen Nowhere, non canonical, b-sides

Ok, so this one kind of sprung up on me.
If you noticed my small Facebook status update, you’ll know that work on the final Citizen Nowhere album has begun. And up until I finished the rough version of Loose Lips, there was a chance I could have dropped CN VIII on you guys right after the new year (about a year off from The Solitary Vice actually). But then I finished this track…

…and I’m starting to think the whole album should sound like this.

That decision has two ramifications:

1) All the tracks I consider part of CN VIII right now (I’m calling it something pretentious that is laughable, so let’s just use the Roman Numerals until later) aren’t any longer. They will need new vocals and arrangements or will get shunned off to the secret CN wrap-up project.

2) CN VIII is now more distant. Spring, maybe? Summer, hopefully? Fall, for sure?

Anyway. Enjoy this one and know that it will appear on the LAST Citizen Nowhere album and might be slightly more pleasantly mixed than it is now.

dontdownloadme “Loose Lips” by Citizen Nowhere off Citizen Nowhere VIII

Jess Frantz and I have been making lo-fi music together for years now. It’s about time we did something that was all our own and didn’t owe anything to Serious Bob or…I dunno, Phil?

Download the 10-track, 20-minute hip-hop/dance joke EP from Eta Theta Beta by clicking HERE.

It’s been awhile since I posted anything music-wise. There are many reasons: I’m poor, wouldn’t I rather be outside for the summer?, none of the tracks I’m working on have vocals yet, some of the tracks I have aren’t mine, etc.

This is one track that isn’t mine, per se.

Tai and I were planning to include this track along with Doorknobs and Keyholes and Keep On for our pop album we were going to write and then rename and all that jazz.

Then Tai got engaged to his girlfriend, then he decided to get married this Halloween and have a party for all us Colorado people next summer. That’s probably the next time I’m going to see Tai.

Anyway, I’ve had this track sitting around for over a year-and-a-half. I occasionally revisit it to record more vocals (the lyrics haven’t ever changed, but the melody does…a lot). The version I’m going to post (because I love content and don’t mind people making fun of the process) has two versions of the vocals laid over each other. It’s a weird way to listen to the song, but as a guy who has been trying to find the right way to sing it for almost two years, it allows me to make second-by-second notes on one track while hearing two vocal lines simultaneously.

Who knows when, if ever, this track will be finished.

dont download me “The Only Thing I Face Alone” WORKING VERSION by The Bright Side Of Death

Important things to keep in mind, you ask?

1) When the song is finished, I will not be the one singing on it.
2) The instrumental was written and performed by Ty Hart
3) I’d still love to make this album.
4) This track is not one you want to download and listen to a lot. More of a glimpse into the process.

It’s got a weight
It’s got a height
One big corporeal afterthought
It hits you hard
It hits you fast
You feel the punch in your gut
It’s hard to erase
We can’t forget
It’s over all our heads.

These things. They are a bane.
A scarlet letter hanging ’round the necks of the tame.
The silent are guilty and the loud they aren’t much better off
We can’t just throw it away, we have to turn and face the ugliness

Please don’t say you won’t
Don’t say you can’t

We’re all in this together, now. We were all in this together anyhow.
If I’m not the last one left, the only thing I face alone is death.

I thought that this year was going to see the release of a solo album that I actually got reproduced and UPC coded to sell and have. It’d be a testament to my years and years of making music for no apparent reason.

But I’m hesitant. I don’t really want to open myself up to the criticism that selling my work inevitably does, and releasing an album really only means one thing: live shows. I know a whole bunch of folks perform in “laptop bands,” but there is nothing visually exciting about what I do.

And what happens if the track is more quiet and possibly instrumental, like this current work in progress? Yeah it’s gonna have lyrics, but only because it needs to. Otherwise it’s this song mostly recorded instrument-by-instrument with one difference from normal recordings: none of the instruments are real.

Who wants to have a two drink minimum forced on them to watch me dick around? Especially since I have no business singing, but haven’t yet met someone who wants to don the mantle of being my voice for my songs.

Pish. Pish, I say! At least I’m listening to this album, and it flows pretty well. It’s 20 minutes too long and almost every song needs remixing or entirely new vocals, but it’s an album. An album equally about me and the recession.

Anyway, I’ve been calling this song both “Reality Sets In” and “Things Must Get Better Than This.” The real title will depend heavily on the lyrics, which have yet to be written.

But, I suggest this: wait until it’s raining, then stick this track on while wearing some headphones. Reality might set in.

download link “RSI/TMGBTT (Vox less)” Rough Mix.

Still working on stuff, don’t worry.

Yeah, I have a lot of B-Sides, but I don’t want any of them to be on the new (and final) Citizen Nowhere album. So I made this, than instantly regretted making such a cool cover design for something that probably won’t happen.