"Copy In A Dream" : FAWM

Copy In A Dream

5 days ago by @namjunerobot

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Copy In A Dream

namjunerobot

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Liner Notes

#post-punk #avant-pop #indie #fullproduction I guess this is about living in someone's mind rent free while they sleep. They have this idea of you, this duplicated version of you. That version is like a puppet running through their crazy dream, but they feel like it's real.

Lyrics

hopping over a rusty turnstile don’t trust my double vision past the past, the burn pile never mind the time it’s gonna take me i seem to rewind, changing probability but i’ll get there one way or another

all this pressure i’m buried under doing everything that i can to take his place but there’s an undertow in your brain’s flow state

free-running through the city it’s a shitty night

between a hard place and a heavy rock i’m racing against a broken clock

my veins are gonna pop heart is gonna stop better grab the mop to clean up when i drop but little do you know that i’m running through your mind

and this ain’t he...

i’m just a copy that you designed (just a copy in a dream) muscles tighten then release (just a copy in a dream) this simulate doing what you please (just a copy in a dream) a version that never used to be (just a copy in a dream) duplicated doppelgänger freed

Wa73/Princeton Recording Amp/SireT7/Mustang Bass/ODR-1 Overdrive/JHS Notadumble/C4 Synth/Tube Century channel strip/TRS opto compressor/Valhalla Futureverb/Magma Stressbox/Springs/UAD PolyMax/

Comments

@kaminokai 4d

what a great sound. and song. digging that drum machine. the vocals (and bgv's) are excellent. love the instrumentation. kinda has a mix between a punk-Bowie and wired and tripped out Traveling Wilburys. I'd buy a whole album of this music and trip out! awesome! please bandcamp this!

@namjunerobot 2d

Ah thanks! I may start doing like a distrokid thing here soon I dunno. No one goes to my bandcamp page but, I will probably put more there soon anyway. The instrumentation was just fun to do. I think it's the easiest, for me, making music from the perspective of texture and movement and I think that's why the music inspires the words 99% of the time. In this one, first line is basically what I tried to do with the sound "hopping over rusty turnstile".. = bouncy and kinda rusty sounding, double vision is like the doubled effect on the vocals, the burn pile is like the overdriven rhythm guitar.. I don't really start out on that vision but I start to see that take shape and it's part of how something starts to come together to create the vision or whatever. I'm nerding out.

@kaminokai 1d

i go to your BandCamp page 🤘🙂. i have the Built to Survive album. :) so, keep nerding out!!!

@namjunerobot 4h

Oh cool! I slowly remastered those I should update them, they sound better now.. I think.

@chrisgray 4d

Yeah, love this. Love the dream sound/feel of it, running thru a dystopian city landscape. And esp. how the lyrics match the energy -- vivid, frantic, and even funny ("better grab the mop"). I really love everything about this!

@namjunerobot 2d

It's funny when I did that better grab the mop part I kept thinking of snoop dog. I dunno why. I just heard him rapping that part for some weird reason. Thanks for the kind words I'm glad you dug it. I've really been on this dream kick lately like I need to write about other things.

@itneverhappened 4d

So much happening in this, at all times. Almost chaotic but held together by the energy and the short pop-format. Super intense and fun and I really like those complementary higher pitch vocals. Intriguing pedal collection too!

@namjunerobot 2d

That's the hard part for me.. trying to keep what's is most important and not over doing it but I do like to push it. You do a great job of that.. you have so much texture and sound in your songs but you create these complimentary focal points even if there's an undulation to what's going on..

@headfirstonlyTEAM 5d

Glorious riff - this absolutely rockets along and that mix just pulls in the listener and takes them along on a guitar-intensive thrill ride. Fun to see all the pedals involved, too - that's a nice collection, put to very good use!

@namjunerobot 2d

Awesome! Glorious I will take ;) Just trying things and hoping it works out. I have been using the EH C4 pedal a lot because I am not a great keyboard player so that's my work around. Thanks for the great comment :)