Eric’s new album: Happy Life

Eric’s new album: Happy Life

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
This is my new album. I sing on it and stuff. You can download it and everything. So that's neat. X-Sweet Happy Life 1) The Key to a Happy Life 2) Went Away 3) Down Down 4) So Much Blood 5) We Are Walking Avatars 6) Magic Nights 7) Summer Bottles 8) Ma vie est terminée 9) The First is Last 10) At the Window

Soon. New Eric music. Very soon.

Posted inMusic, Random Musings
When recording music, self-indulgence is a huge sin -- and one I commit time and again. Can't help it. It's not like it's musician wank. I'm not anywhere CLOSE to a good enough musician for that. It's sound wank. Noise, big sound, layered drones, guitar feedback. Stuff no one wants to hear. But I like to hear it, so I do it. So anyway, I'm recording a new X-Sweet album, right? And X-Sweet tends to be my more traditional musical project, what with me singing reg'lar ol' songs and all that. I'm not claiming it's good, as you can see…
I am a terrible singer…

I am a terrible singer…

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... but will soon be doing it anyway. I mentioned previously that when my PC died my music ground to a halt with it. I kind of need to do music, though. It's a creative outlet I can't do without, especially since writing is as much work as it is fun. New PC is now up and running ... and that means a new X-Sweet album is coming at some point in the near future. This time, though, I'm taking my time. I have a habit of rushing through this stuff, settling for good enough, and tossing it out the…
Back to writing new music

Back to writing new music

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
I don't think I've mentioned it here, what with being busy as hell on writing projects and all, but in early January my desktop PC keeled over in a flaming ball of computer death, shards of shrapnel flying around the living room like a Tom Hanks/Stephen Spielberg production. This was unfortunate for many reasons, one of the biggest (for me) being that I was right in the middle of a major music project. My first X-Sweet record in three years, specifically, and hopefully the best I've done so far. I've been writing a lot of music lately. Not the sprawling…
Eric sings for you

Eric sings for you

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A week or so I started another blog meant to be nothing more than an archive of my music. (Follow it on Facebook here.) Last night I posted an album I recorded three years ago. An album with (gasp!) singing. I am a terrible singer. I really ought not try to sing. But here is the album, anyway: X-Sweet One Last Goodbye 1) The New X-Sweet (0:37) 2) Goodbye, My Friend (4:15) 3) Roll It Over (2:53) 4) Purple Rose (2:40) 5) Blue Moon (3:02) 6) Breaking (4:57) 7) Rowhouses (0:50) 8) The Bottom of Things (2:09) 9) Martha Dear…