#13 – ‘Safe as Houses’, #14 – ‘Wherever We Are’ and #15 – ‘Shadow Black’
Sorry for the lack of updates! If anyone’s actually reading this. Anyway, there have been three new tunes since I last wrote here. All on Spotify/Apple/everywhere else, or for download below. Safe as Houses by Anecdata Wherever We Are by Anecdata Shadow Black by AnecdataWe’ve been in lockdown here in Auckland for over two months...
#12 – ‘All Potato’
Song #12 of 52 is a tune a friend described as a “creepy nursery rhyme” – ‘All Potato’. All Potato by Anecdata I wrote it a few months back – initially it was just a simple beat with the bassline, which in my head was something along the lines of U2’s ‘Bullet the Blue Sky’....
#11 – ‘Wrong Decision’
Song #11 is ‘Wrong Decision’. Wrong Decision by AnecdataI initially wrote and recorded a demo of this one in 2018 after listening to whole lot of early-70s Bowie. It’s clear I’m no Bowie. Maybe late ’80s Bowie? But definitely not early 70s. Bowie. My initial notes were that the tune was good, but the lyrics...
#10 – ‘Everything is Here to Stay’
Tenth song in ten weeks is ‘Everything is Here to Stay’. Hopefully not this lockdown… Everything is Here to Stay by AnecdataI wrote the bones of this song in 2012, using some live-recorded drum loops. At its heart, it’s a power-pop tune; that came across a bit more in the demo, while the version above...
#9 – ‘United States vs the Coronavirus’
There’s this thing you might have heard about called “the coronavirus”. Pretty obscure stuff to write a song about, I know, but hey – I like to stay a step ahead of the curve. United States vs the Coronavirus by Anecdata I wrote this song in February, just as the world’s worst wave of COVID-19...
