Plug - Damascus EP

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After two months working on and off, I've finally finished my second EP. For those of you unfamiliar with the past stuff (read: the vast majority of you), it's a solo effort, but has a full complement of instruments producing something which has at various times appeared to be in the style of (and don't shoot me for these because I didn't say them, I'm hopeless with comparisons ;)) The Cure, Joy Division, [Early] Marillion and Pink Floyd, but obviously not all at once.

While I've just slipped a subtle hint into "Currently Listening To" on previous occassions, I feel that while this release may not be to everyone's personal taste, it qualifies as listenable in terms of musicianship and production, and as such I'm not ashamed to stick myself into the line of critical fire. Though I've probably spoken too soon :innocent:

Anyway, the EP is 16:08 long, consists of 5 tracks, is available free of charge as a nice convenient zip file and should not be judged by the rather weird openning number ;D

Here you go:
http://motz.atspace.com/discography.html#damascus
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Still plinky-plinky and crap vocals? Or better? :innocent:
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Johnny M wrote:Still plinky-plinky and crap vocals? Or better? :innocent:
Better.
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See for yourself ;)

Which, for the lazy, means:
No, the guitars have taken a harder edge and the plinky-plinky has been handed to the keyboards. Vocals are apparently better, but don't quote me. I've just tried to get a stronger semi-spoken voice that stands out in the mix rather than something more melodic. Or whatever :lol:

Edit: Thanks scotty :P
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scotty wrote:
Johnny M wrote:Still plinky-plinky and crap vocals? Or better? :innocent:
Better.
Thank you Mr Scotty. Two of us do take the time out, download and listen to the youngsters. 8) :wink: :notworthy:
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Aye. And one is most definitely more critically blunt in his responses than the other. Whether that's a good thing or not is left as the exercise for the reader ;)
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I consider these to be your best songs, nice work. 8)
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Thanks for taking the time to listen to it and congratulations for surviving all 3 records :lol: The feedback is especially appreciated, since in my current non-gigging situation it's the only way I can gauge what's working well in the ears of others.

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As an aside, I hope my responses aren't sounding like pompous artwank. It's not intended, but I'm reading them as such... :| [/Rhetorical ;)]
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just downloaded them Mike and will have a listen when the kids are up -these evaluationary listens deserve a proper volume,no ?
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Still have to listen to your previous one (which is waiting for me on my desktop) actually :oops:

I'll try to think of it though and keep you posted on how it was ;D
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Not bad 8)
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Thankyou all kindly :notworthy:

Lee: I hope they don't scare the little ones, because they apparently scare my peers :|
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Downloading now, stay tuned :notworthy:
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