Early Demos & Tape Hiss, by Mike Behrends

Early Demos & Tape Hiss

by Mike Behrends

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1.	Watching Automobiles 05:00	buy track
2.	Korean Gown (ending) 01:21	buy track
3.	Stolen Bicycle 03:00	buy track
4.	South Koree 02:57	buy track
5.	Went West 02:38	buy track
6.	My Black Jeans 03:42	buy track
7.	Enough About Me 03:01	buy track
8.	Spray Paint Train 02:20	buy track
9.	1000 Years 02:52	buy track
10.	Pont-Char-Train 03:01	buy track
11.	If I Grew Out My Beard 03:20	buy track
12.	Hard Tymes 03:25	buy track
13.	Don't You Worry Bout Me 03:00	buy track
14.	Ain't No Friend Of Mine 02:40	buy track
15.	Moving On Down The Line 04:32	buy track

about

I decided to dig up this old collection of songs that's been sitting on my hard drive for almost 10 years. Time has allowed me to not be quite as embarrassed by their low sound quality and unrefined singing and be comfortable with them as a place in time.

A number of these songs never made it to a CD. Others did, and the versions here are what I recorded right away after I finished writing the song so as not to forget how it went later when I wanted to play it again. I wanted to share them because I never have and why not.

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released February 23, 2014

Recorded directly into the speakers of an Apple iBook G4 and a cassette recorder machine between 2005—2010 in Duluth, Minnesota and my grandma's basement in _______, Minnesota. All songs and words and instruments and wrong notes and lack of technical ability by myself, Mike Behrends.

PRESS:
"Behrends plays a variety of stringed instruments, but it's his lyricism and plaintive, often to the point of breaking, vocals that steal the show. Fits nicely within the burgeoning indie folk movement."
—Songs Illinois, circa 2008, after hearing some of these demos

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