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I mostly listen to 90's-present indie/folk but I enjoy 60s-70's rock/pop too.
I think my biggest strengths are writing and singing. I've been playing guitar for about 10 years and producing/writing for about 6 years now. I'm not the best producer but I try to push the envelope a bit and I think I have a unique flavor going for me.
I'd really like a bassist, drummer, producer, keys, and would be happy with another vocalist as well. I'd like this band to use elements of folk/rock/pop/prog/bossa nova/jazz, but I'm open to whatever comes out of it too.
I'm willing to work really hard on this project and am looking for people that want to put some heart into a band that supports each other.
if you're interested leave a comment about what you play/do and what you'd be interested in seeing in a group, plus a link to music of yours that I could check out. Thanks and happy easter :0
Here's a link to the album I put out for you to get a taste of my writing style:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0WzwM9h88m4Ll2pT8ZLGyk?si=xikHy9SqSGuaEpJpx3DIMw
And here is a link to a much more recent song:
https://soundcloud.com/mason-chase-397719136/weight-of-the-world-xander-alterii
Peace and love,
Puppylove
Hey guys! I made this comissioned music video for Andy Shauf a few months ago, and despite owing EVERYTHING to the unreal community and developers for making it possible, I'm ashamed to say I never formally shared it. It's been getting some consistent buzz since it came out, and NoFilmSchool interviewed the team and I about our process if you're curious. I'm super happy to talk some more about it if anyone wants to know the gritty details of making this one-take-wonder. I've thought that maybe the dev team might be interested in seeing how their (relatively) new point cloud implementation was being used in the real world but I don't know how to reach out to them. Let me just say I love it and I'm so glad it exists. More cool projects coming soon! I'll try to be a more active member of the community as Unreal becomes more and more a part of my core filmmaking toolset.
Hello everyone and welcome back to the r/indieheads Album of the Year 2020 Write-Up Series, the daily series where the users of r/indieheads talk their favorite albums of the year for the duration of December. For Day 17 of the series, we've got u/thedoctordances1940 talking Andy Shauf's early 2020 release, The Neon Skyline.
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Background
Andy Shauf is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has gained a reputation for his expertise in constructing well thought out narratives throughout his records and writing some of the most complete concept albums in recent memory. He started his career by making Christian music and was even the drummer for a Christian pop punk band, until he decided to change up his sound and venture off into his storylines on his own.
Shauf released his full debut album, Darker Days in 2009, but his breakthrough only really came in 2016, with his third studio album The Party, which was praised for its intricate story and its beautifully calming instrumentation. The Neon Skyline is the highly anticipated follow up to that record and was released on the 24th January 2020. His biggest claim to fame so far may be the title track of “The Neon Skyline” featuring on Barack Obama’s 2020 summer playlist.
Writeup by u/thedoctordances1940
“Change on, changer”
Andy Shauf is, first and foremost, a storyteller and The Neon Skyline might be his best and most relatable story yet. The carefully constructed narrative fits the warm and lush instrumentation perfectly and the atmosphere he creates, both sonically and lyrically, touches into that feeling of hope, that a failed relationship can still be salvaged, even when both people know it could never work. The variety emotions Shauf evokes through his lyrics is amazing, one moment I am feeling down in the dumps and the next I feel like I am on top of the world. If I were to describe this album in one word, it would be bittersweet.
The story itself has a clearly constructed narrative and by occasionally digressing from that main storyline,
... keep reading on reddit ➡Another beautiful song I discovered recently, I was inspired by Jacki Giroux to make my own cover :
I hope you'll like it!
P.S. I hope it's appropriate to post cover in here. Please tell me it's not.
Hey Reddit, Andy Shauf Here! I just released a new record called The Neon Skyline on ANTI- Records / Arts & Crafts. I'm heading out on a North American & European tour on February 7 if you want to hear it in person.
I'll be answering questions on here Tuesday January 28 at 1:00PM.
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon | Official Store
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This was shot in a laundrette in Shepherd's Bush before Andy's show at Bush Hall around 2016 for Best Fit.
If you'd like to buy a print:https://society6.com/product/andy-shauf_print?sku=s6-18962464p4a1v45
"Hometown Hero" is not a long song. But in those three minutes and forty-four seconds, Andy gets up to a lot.
Take the opening verses, for example:
> Hometown hero flexing his charm
> with a borderline joke to the guys at the bar
> and they slap their knees like they've not heard it before.
> Thirty-five years wearing his badge,
> nickname-for-life on the shoulder of
> his bomber that he wears as a coach of the high school team.
This is our introduction to the hometown hero, and already we know a lot about him - much more than we've been told.
A big part of this is the classic (and maybe over-emphasized and under-explained) "show, don't tell". Andy doesn't tell us that these guys are the regular crowd at the town dive, but it's there when they laugh. There's even the hint of aimless repetition there, as though life were just killing time. We can see it all around the hometown hero, who Andy adorns with keepsakes of better days gone by, the shroud of wasted potential. Immediately we can imagine his life: popular, maybe captain of the football team; he married his high school sweetheart, maybe they're still married now, maybe not. What we know for sure is that he never made it out of that small town - the hometown hero, doomed to make the same jokes to the same guys in the same divey bar in the same tiny town, cigarette after cigarette, shitty beer after shitty beer, day after day until they are no more days left.
The other thing that's letting Andy communicate so much here with so little is that a lot of this is already culturally cached as archetypes. In these opening verses, Andy has given us just enough to pull the right character mold out of our subconscious and let us fill in the details - the off-color jokes, the old nickname, the threadbare letterman jacket.
What's so masterful about this is how cleverly Andy manipulates it into communicating a motivation to us as well. Here's a man who was going to be somebody, who had everything going for him… And yet, here he is. Same town. Same bar. Same old friends. Wearing that old letterman jacket as if to remind himself that he was meant to do something great.
> He lights a cigarette
> and says "man, these things will kill me someday,"
> raises his glass and says, "here's to hoping."
This phrase – "Man, these things will kill me someday. Here's to hoping." – is uttered twice in "Hometown Hero". I think everyone understands that this marks an
... keep reading on reddit ➡This summer I put on an album exchange - anyone could suggest an album and be matched up with another person who’d suggested a similar album. Over 700 people signed up and, cause I am a massive perfectionist, I spent a month listening to every album in order to sort them into pairs. Listening to 700 albums in a month drove me a little insane but it was super fun to do! I started out thinking I knew a lot about music and ended up realising I knew very very little haha.
A few of these albums were by Andy Shauf so I thought I’d share those specific matches with this page! I matched Waiting For The Sun To Leave by Andy Shauf with Whispers II by Passenger and The Party by Andy Shauf with Little Joy by Little Joy. If you guys enjoy those let me know!
Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
Release Date: January 24th
Label: ANTI-
Genre: Chamber Pop, Singer/songwriter, Indie Folk
Singles: Neon Skyline, Try Again
Streams: Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play
Schedule
| Date | Album |
|---|---|
| Mon. | Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline / Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman |
| Tues. | Wolf Parade - Thin Mind / Black Lips - Sing In A World That's Falling Apart |
this is an unofficial discussion for reactions to the album or whatever your little heart desires. this is for the sake of preserving discussion on as many albums as possible. if there's any releases for the week (or in general) that may be of interest missing from the schedule either PM me or leave a comment somewhere and i'll add it.
