Little Boy Velvet

[DouglasReese 500]

https://soundcloud.com/paul-reese-30998502/sets/untitled-third-album

 

Usually I post in "entertainment", but realize this area is more fitting (I'm not a pro-musician, so it's weird to have a thread there). 

 

But this is my latest album. Strayed away from vocals this time around, instead embracing the production itself to tell the emotions. I did, however, mix a little bit of spoken word in there. 

 

The main inspiration was my current emotional state in these politically heated, and scary times. I was hoping to capture that anxiety, and maybe relieve some of it in the process. 

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

Scraping bark from an elm tree

Videotapes of an icey creek

And in the dark of trailer parks

Shining with bonfires made of stars

Is there anything left to be?

Will we let the atoms breathe?

Is it coming for you and me?

 

We can dream all we want

But in the end, it’s an empty song

Streaming on a creek

That has no shores for landing

We can be what we want to be

We were told that it’s worth it, in the end

But we’re floating onward

To a point where no return exists

 

Don’t look back

 

Writing numbers under rural bridges

Little trolls in their Abercrombie tees

Not just a memory.

And in the light of a city’s eye

Shining with mundanity, stardust moping

On a cinema screen

On a cinema screen

On a cinema screen

On a cinema screen

 

Don’t look back

 

We can dream all we want

But in the end, it’s an empty song

Playing on our cinema screens

That’s morphed with pseudo-memories

We can’t be what we want to be

We were told that it’s worth it, in the end

But we’re floating onward

To a point where no return exists

 

Speaking in tongues in our own religion

Not sure what we’re feeling, but it’s dawning

It’s getting closer.

It’s only around the corner.

And I will pray, that the beauty we made, never ends

Standing on the oak tree, full of poison ivy

But we’re floating onward

To a point where no return exists

We’re floating onward

To a point where we hope to find

A place to exist

 

 

It's getting closer

It's only around the corner

Wear your Abercromie tees

 

https://vimeo.com/232128431

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

My album is almost finished. In the final check-ups and everything. Also debating on an additional track to add (it's up in the air, at the moment, but when you feel the itch to write and produce something, you just got to.) 

 

This was a very personal album, and the first one I spent months on, rather than solely a few weeks. I was influenced by the political climate of post-Trump America, but also about my memories growing up (in the closet) in rural midwest America. This time period was between 2006-2008, so Abercrombie, itself, is a nostalgic pull - and I understand the title can at first seem silly, but I hope it makes better sense in context. 

 

Here's the cover!

 

Brownie points to whoever guesses the album's cover my little gay heart was nostalgically inspired by. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6tZeW-MOEE

 

 

 

UPDATED (FINAL) TRACKLIST:

01. VCR (Intro) [1:07]

02. ABERCROMBIE DREAMS [4:43]

03. RA [4:04]

04. HUMILITY (Interlude) [1:17]

05. IN THE CORNER [3:46]

06. AGNES OF AMERICA [3:16]

07. LIGHTER FLUID [3:09]

08. PAST MIDNIGHT, 2008 (Interlude) [1:46]

09. TUMBLING (feat. Hazel T) [3:49]

10. CLAYMATION (Pts. 1-5) [11:52]

 

Full release this Friday, January 12th (but today for LanaBoards). 

[Creyk 11,699]

Perform the lead single on SNL.

[Solar Fields 4,163]

Where’s the single at

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

First "official" (  ) single will be posted in about 15 minutes. 

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b85UsgNyKM0

[Solar Fields 4,163]

I need to hear more

[DEMONDELREY 2,677]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b85UsgNyKM0

 

I CAN'T WAIT TO GET HIGH TO THIS IT'S BRILLIANT 

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

I need to hear more

Check back in this thread in two days. 

 

I CAN'T WAIT TO GET HIGH TO THIS IT'S BRILLIANT 

 

Getting high is the only acceptable way of listening to my stuff anyway. 

[kitschesque 9,882]

The overall mood kind of brings me back to my trip hop phase that I had several years ago, I really really like it and will be going back for more

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

The overall mood kind of brings me back to my trip hop phase that I had several years ago, I really really like it and will be going back for more

 

Thank you so much! Can't wait to share the others. 

[fl0ridakil0s 3,959]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b85UsgNyKM0

 

Wow, such a great song! Loved it! I'm here for your album!

[PinUpCartoonBaby 1,017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b85UsgNyKM0

 

Oh wow, this sounds amazing! I like your music style and I can't wait to hear the other songs.

Do you mind me asking if you produce everything yourself? It all sounds quite professional

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

Oh wow, this sounds amazing! I like your music style and I can't wait to hear the other songs.

Do you mind me asking if you produce everything yourself? It all sounds quite professional

 

Yeah, I pretty much do everything. Haha. 

 

On a side note to others, I'm thinking I'm going to go ahead and release the album today for LB. Just because you guys have been so warming of "Ra". 

How would you guys prefer the album? Soundcloud playlist, or a Youtube video with them together?

[Coney Island King 26,002]

Actually decent. Usually the gays on forums releasing music is a mess, but Ra is good.

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

This is the Soundcloud link. I'll do a Youtube video later, for those who don't bother with the site (plus, it doesn't embed here.  )

 

https://soundcloud.com/littleboyvelvet/sets/abercombie-dreams

[BLURRYFACE 1,713]

wow!!

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

Actually decent. Usually the gays on forums releasing music is a mess, but Ra is good.

 

Oh my. lol

 

Thank you so much for listening to it! Glad you liked it. <3

[Solar Fields 4,163]

Where can we find the lyrics?