When a romantic relationship ends, you don’t go back to being the person you were before the relationship started. That has been my recent experience, anyway. My relationship with my now-ex was a big deal for me, because it was the first one I’d had after 8 years of being single. It was amazing to me how much I needed to learn not only about how to be in a relationship period, but about myself and what kind of person I was.
So I wrote a song about that. Lyrics, as always, are below the fold.
What happens to musicians after they stop being popular?
Ben Folds and John K. Sampson are two of my favourite songwriters. They both have this unbelievable talent for creating vignettes of life, tiny slices of existence, that evoke a emotional context much larger than the 3 or 4 minutes that the song lasts for. This song represents my attempt to emulate that feat.
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I used to (and swear I no longer) have a serious ‘drunk texting’ problem. Many of my friends have been on the receiving end of at least one suspiciously-late confession of deep affection. Most of the time these messages were innocuous and either laughed at or ignored, but occasionally I had to apologize for my lack of self-restraint.
This song is about that.
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A couple of years ago I fell into a situation that was familiar to me, and likely familiar to many of you as well. I had met someone, we had good chemistry, but I wasn’t sure if there was mutual romantic interest. And so I was trying to suss out what her feelings were, careful not to cross ‘the line’. The funny thing about ‘the line’ is that the closer you are to it, the more you realize it’s not as solid as you might have believed.
So this song is about being in that situation:
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My band (formerly CROWN, now Even Handed Odds) recorded a couple of tracks for an LP that never materialized. This is one of the tracks that made it.
My band (formerly CROWN, now Even Handed Odds) recorded a couple of tracks for an LP that never materialized. Happily for me, we recorded the one I wrote.
I used to play in a band called CROWN. We released an EP back in 2011, and this song is from that album.
Stuart Alves – lead vocals, guitar
Darin Cohen – guitar
Ian Cromwell – viola, vocals
Paul Omstead – vocals, guitar
Recorded at Clark Drive Studios by Rick Wellin
I used to play in a band called CROWN. We released an EP back in 2011, and this song is from that album.
Stuart Alves – bass, vocals
Darin Cohen – guitar
Ian Cromwell – viola, vocals
Paul Omstead – lead vocals, guitar
Recorded at Clark Drive Studios by Rick Wellin
I used to play in a band called CROWN. We released an EP back in 2011, and this song is from that album.
Stuart Alves – bass, vocals
Darin Cohen – guitar
Ian Cromwell – viola, vocals
Paul Omstead – lead vocals, guitar
Recorded at Clark Drive Studios by Rick Wellin
Some of you may know that I play in a band called CROWN. What you may not know is that I don’t play in a band called CROWN anymore. We changed our name back in April to Even Handed Odds, reflecting not only a change in our lineup (we added a drummer), but the fact that there are a million things out there called “Crown”, which made us really tough to find on the internet. Since the name change, we played our first show as a 5-piece at The Backstage Lounge, a restaurant/live music venue on Vancouver’s beautiful Granville Island.
We shot this video at the gig:
Anyway, more shameless self-promotion.
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