The band known as Sea Water Bliss
Recorded October 2004 - March 2006
Uploaded July 2006

Yes, it's our long-delayed self-titled debut, featuring the hit-like single The band known as Sea Water Bliss! (...And ten other songs of varying quality.)

Purchase this CD on CD Baby (for US$8)

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Troy Mamer did terrific artwork for both manifestations of our rock opera. He was the obvious choice to illustrate and design our album cover.

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1. Adelaide (Please don't leave me now)
     "Adelaide
     It's been thirteen weeks since I got paid
     But I believe we'll make it through somehow"
     read lyrics | download full-length high-quality mp3

2. Clowns
     "Everybody now they just do what they please
     They're hanging all the cops from the high trapeze"
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3. The Palace of Justice is burning down
     "And now the first barrage of stones
     Sends half the firemen rushing home"
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4. My evil child
     "When the poison is at your lips, and you feel it trickle past
     Remember that I'm the one who loved you till the last"
     read lyrics | play lo-fi sample (from CD Baby)

5. The band known as Sea Water Bliss
     "The first thunderbolt split the captain in two
     The second one finished the rest of the crew"
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6. The growl hole
     "It was a growl hole - GRRROWL!
     And it nearly scared her out of her skin"
     read lyrics & view video
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7. Jesus loves you (Jesus hates me)
     "Jesus loves you like a submarine
     Jesus loves you like a time machine
     But I don't think he cares for me at all"
     read lyrics & view video
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8. Curl up and die
     "She touched my arm
     She laughed at all my jokes
     Man, it didn't mean a single thing"
     read lyrics | play lo-fi sample (from CD Baby)

9. The ice age
     "And if the world is warming, I would be surprised
     Cos icicles are forming right before my eyes"
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10. Theme from Teen Wolf Too
     "All my actor friends are cracking wise
     But I can see the envy in their eyes"
     read lyrics & view "unfinished" video
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11. You're not the one
     "So you're probably not the one
     But it's still too soon to tell"
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Miscellaneous demos and songs from future albums

Half my age (demo)
"You're looking at me sideways
Like I'm an unwelcome surprise"
read lyrics & view videos | download mp3

I recorded this song in a hurry as a gift for my dad's sixtieth birthday. All voices and instrumentation are by me - even the bass, which is just my acoustic guitar digitally pitch-shifted down one octave. (I think Andrew was busy that day.) But I must credit Darcy Beck with assembling a pretty catchy rhythm track from the sound of me snapping my fingers and tapping random objects with a stick.

Also, please check out the music video, directed by Jay Arnold.

Recorded January 2006
Uploaded November 2006

Song of the severed heads (acoustic demo)
"Sometime before this time of ours
When Rome and Carthage were the powers
They went to war, as powers do..."
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This song was gonna go on our debut album, but we set it aside. The recording features me singing, playing guitar, and tootling rather clumsily into a harmonica. It all sounds much better with bass and drumbeat and vocal harmonies, but who knows when or if we'll ever record a proper version. Someday I'd like to write a whole collection of songs about classical history and release them together under the title (borrowed from Dryden's translation of Plutarch) Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.

Recorded December 2005
Uploaded November 2006