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Reflection (split w/ Austie)

by Victor Aidan

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1.
True 02:25
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Casual Casualties 03:35
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Deja Vu 03:45
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Creek Tea 03:25
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Shift 04:22
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I'm happy to have been a part of this collab with Austie, the ole songwriting duo is at it again! Well, okay I didn,t actually come up with anything new for this project besides a couple verses and some sweet basslines, His side of the split consists of 5 absolute banger tracks that I personally think represent him at the peak of his skills as a songwriter.
As for my half of the project, I chose to reflect on some old songs, as well as revisit and finally get around to finishing a few throw-away tunes from the same period of time. As most of these songs approach 10 years since being written back when i was a kid still, i find there was something honest in their naive simplicity.
True was a song about being a bored kid, looking to get into some mischief and impress your friends. I used to sneak out back with a lighter just for the pure fun of literally playing with fire. Then I thought hey, I could end up burning down my house. Then I thought, hey that could be a song! That's all there is to it.
I'm not really sure where Casualties came from. That one and Deja Vu were kicking around about the same time. They never quite made the cut, and to be honest I had completely forgotten them until strangely enough during a moment of having deja vu, I remembered them! I have some vivid memories of where I was when I started writing these songs years ago.
Shift came from one of the very first songwriting sessions Austin and I ever had together, and it all came from a line he had written that stuck with me; "you can only have what's left, after what's been taken." I remember going home, piecing together the rest, and coming to him with this totally different song that was all sparked from that one line.
Creek Tea pretty evidently I think comes from my days out exploring and mucking about the rich Western New York wildernesses that existed between the pockets of the suburbs we all lived in. Who the fuck knows what else I would have done with myself had I grown up somewhere without that kind of escape to nature right in my backyard. I miss the endless kingdom that seemed to lay at our feet then. What a thing, when we dream together.
Anyways, this old man is done rambling for now, the rest of the story will have to tell itself. Perhaps a nostalgia trip, i don't know,, it all ties together one way or another

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released December 30, 2021

Link to Austin's side of the split madhare.bandcamp.com/album/reflection-split

All sounds created by myself, except in Shift which contains a special Easter egg heheh

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Funky Earth Soul Coming Out The Forest With The Blues

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