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rock and/or roll

Dyscalyptus

A short, somewhat creepy guitar-arpeggio-centric near-instrumental.

[mp3]
This one had a very long gestation time. According to my records the germ of it is from Dec 2020, but I think it took me some time to come up with the B section and I waffled about what to do with it lyrically for a very long time. Before today I had a notion about a longer lyric that would occupy more of the track, but I never liked it so when I came up with a little line today I realized I could just let this be mostly an instrumental and finally call it done. I always liked the instrumental and was never quite sure it needed lyrics at all, but this seemed like an ok balance.
posted by valrus on Oct 20, 2024 at 8:44 PM

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That is some perfectly placed delay. And I put on headphones halfway thru to check that I wasn't hallucinating the spooky breathy noises. The way the bass starts to pull off from the beat around 0:50 is so subtly unsettling. And the word dyscalyptus is really fun and fits perfectly. Going in the Halloween mix.
posted by es_de_bah at 6:44 AM

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[ Thanks for the creepy vibe, we've noted this song on the sidebar and Best Of blog! ]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:40 AM

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