My wife and I recorded some songs that she wrote over the last 3 or 4 years and we recently released it as an album. It was done in Ardour from start to finish.
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Congrats!
Grooving to Tie Dye Soul currently. Heady stuff to tackle lyrically and lots of great little guitar riffs and parts. Great work on the mixes, will need to dive deeper this week. Do you guys perform this stuff live anywhere, like even as a Duo?
PS, Love the album art! 
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Thaks Glen. We do plan on playing live but will probably have to start out with backing tracks. There’s a lot of vocal and guitar layering and bits of strings and slide guitar and stuff like that but I think it could be pulled off if we had a couple solid background vocals, bass, drums and keys and/or 2nd guitar.
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Most of the drums are from your kits except for Tie Dye Soul and Into the Music which use TR808 samples. I think all were the Black Pearl kit except Blazing with the Red Zep, I Guess with Blonde Bop and Home with Gimme a Hand.
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Thanks! Glad to hear they’ve been useful!
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Tried to listen, looks like that site requires registration. Let us know if you post a site that doesn’t require tethering.
It might sound strange but I’m so old-fashioned that I even don’t have Spotify.
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Same here. Have to pass on that.
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You can hear it on YouTube
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I feel the other instruments are more prominent than her vocal. I have difficulty understanding the lyrics… she is (very nicely) not compressed up to be loud all the time… so she gets lost behind the instruments for my ears. I’d bring her more forward. Drums and the guitar sound clearer and more prominent than her.
Compositionally: that very sudden change from the parlando to the “AAAAhahahaaaaa” will be unsingable (nicely) live – and even as a recording it sounds unnatural and forced, for the same reason. Work a bit more on that part rhythmically/compositionally, so that she can flow more naturally, I think it would be worth it.
Lyrically: This is entirely my prudity, and I don’t know your genre much (never heard you guys before), so feel free to ignore. I assume you guys are from the US, where these curse words might not be considered heavy anymore and are used casually… and her rendition of them sounds emotionally desolate and distant. which from her character I guess kinda was the goal here? still, wouldn’t it be more poetic to use some other, less overused – and hence more impactful – wording? To convey some emotional impact, but also not to dirty the image of her soul for the listener? Like, as if she, even though she is clenching her fists and teeth to cope with a difficult situation at the moment, still has some sunshine inside which still that wants to get out. I feel so sad when I see beautiful beings being forced to curse just to feel their emotions validated and have weight.