yes this is by far your best work yet. coming back to life was really great but this is boomtown mcfantastic.

I listened to this in bed last night and it was really great! You definitely have a good musical direction going and you should keep going.

Perhaps invest some cash in some stuff to record your vocals or even just get chummy with someone who does that kinda thing (My mate works in a studio so he recorded me ​) and you'd have a really professional sounding record. I'm not saying they were not good cause you have come a long way since the last album (which was also great) but you could be polished up to sound proper radio.

Keep making music man! My ears really enjoyed that.

Something about your music makes it really good for repeated listening or at least I don't seem to get sick of it like I do with most music -- my usual way of listening to music is to find something i like a lot then listen to it non-stop till i'm totally sick of it and I never want to hear it again. I used Coming Back to Life as my standard work background music for ages and I've had this one loopin since I downloaded it pretty much. i hope you're already working on the next one

okay so i got round to listening to it in full tonight. jamie you have every right to feel especially proud of this, it's fantastic. the songwriting is really solid, i like the synthesised sounds you used and altogether it's quite impressive. the only area it really falls down on is production values and maybe some of the vocals could've done with a couple more takes but really these don't take anything away from it at all. good work jamie, best yet B)

I gave this stinker a download and listened to it straight through. it's good! I'll listen to it again tomorrow and maybe write something more

Thanks to everyone who is listening. I like reading these comments alot.

I'm listening right now. Question: Track 5 is listed as "Monster" on the album art but tagged as "Mother"

which is it or is this INTENTIONAL

sheesh... freud much?

Hey Jamie, G mentioned you were going to put up a record soon and I stayed alert.
So I was excited when I found this thread.

I downloaded it and gave the record a spin and half.

First of all, you know I really respect your artistic ventures in general.
I think your strength comes in songwriting, you really show some vision, specially with the beats and progressions. And you always put thought on layering.
I appreciate what you've done with track 2 with the unusual beats, and my favourite track must be the fourth one.

Now, I had a couple of problems with the record.
Firstly, and this is the same problem I had with your previous record, I cannot listen to the record in one go, I'm on the fifth song and I'm already tired. And I usually listen to records from beginning to end. I think it lies mostly on your vocals, I find them very unidimensional. I think you do have a naturally good voice, I like it! But it is unidimensional, I feel it is limited and I feel a certain repetition in how you use your voice throughout the whole record.
It really reminds me of Elliott Smith's voice. A great voice, but at low doses. I cannot hear a whole ES record. It's too much, there are great songs but as a whole it bores me. This problem I found it with all your records, Jamie.

The other thing is the quality of the synths. I feel they are too cheap many times, like they came from a computer or from Sega Genesis. And man those slow synths and pads that you use really depresses me, makes me feel like I'm in a closed chamber and in damp atmosphere.

cheers

that's probably a good point about my singing. i'm only just about comfortable enough to let my voice be a single track nowadays, i haven't thought so much about variety yet because i've been more concerned with keeping it consistent and not having tracks where i'm all out of time/out of key which there is less of on this album than before. trying to sing in different ways is probably an excellent idea to start thinking about now though. maybe on my next album i will do a big rap.

as for the synth stuff, i think that's half me using cheap vsts and stuff and half that's actually what i like sometimes. like the song spiders, the bass synth in that sounds cheap and old but that's what i was going for. ways between walls has a really basic synth sound, i liked that. i like to use stuff that sounds a bit more pro/new like some of the stuff on falling out of a body i think sounds pretty fresh n' cool i guess? but alot of the synth choices aren't so much me being limited as me liking those kinds of sounds. i'm glad you liked the beat on track 2, cos i liked that too. i want to start thinking about rhythm more because i've always used basic drum beats and they do get repetitive.

yeah, i guess i'm standing here, standing here as a MAN, and taking that stuff on board. i'm taking it like it was intended. thanks for listening to it and taking the trouble to tell me what you think, francis!

I'm listening right now. Question: Track 5 is listed as "Monster" on the album art but tagged as "Mother"

which is it or is this INTENTIONAL

christ i am so shabby. the song USED to be called monster, then i thought mother was a better title. i am not calling my mother a monster by that title. the lyrics are told from the perspective of a kind of monsterous man and that's why it was called that, but then i thought 'when this guy gets caught doing all this horrible stuff, what will they tell his mother?' so i changed the title to that. the song used to be alot longer with me singing 'what will we tell her?' and stuff like that but it was kind of melodramatic and i didn't want to over do that on this album so i cut it out recently.

edit: also mother should be track nine?

Perhaps invest some cash in some stuff to record your vocals

yip, thinking about that.

this is rude, but it's important to me.