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Come Back From San Francisco- Magnetic Fields cover
It’s been 25 years since 69 Love Songs came out. From weddings to eternal indie discos, the finest and certainly most absurd Magnetic Fields album became a huge part of my life. The first song I ever learned to play was off that album, Come Back From San Francisco has three chords and lots of Read more
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The Ballad of Ms Doris Wu
I’ve written another demo. This one has actual lyrics and everything, which I shall post below to help me remember what they are. As always, I only really have one means of writing lyrics: utter stream of consciousness. Let it all hang out, I say. It’s been a while since I published an album of Read more
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Ruthless Window by James Walsh: the story of a debut album
The problem with life, like history, is that it’s just one thing after another. I’ve always struggled to process things while they’re happening, both in terms of what I’ve done (good and bad) and what has been done to me (ditto). Time whooshes by like one of Douglas Adams’ deadlines, and so it’s taken me Read more
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