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After Air

From despair we hope.
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9 songs
3:53Song Image
a gentle song built from discordant, twitchy pieces that refuse to stay put, like a punk rock lullaby cutting through the din of digital noise, Played poorly on a beat up half step detuned acoustic guitar, Sung with the intimacy and ache of human history by a female alto singer with punk rock in her soul and angel's in her throat, This is the final message from a woman who wishes the world to be better than how she found it, keep the instruments raw, percussion should be wooden sticks on a overturned plastic bucket, no strings, This is just intimate and weird, no pop sheen
3:16Song Image
Fast, furious acoustic guitar–driven rock barn burner, Live, reckless street-performance energy, Same stripped instrumentation: relentless fast down-up acoustic strumming with percussive rakes, pounding upright piano/keyboard chords (strictly keys only, no pads or synths), claps and stomps only, No drum kit, no bass, no synths, Female alto lead vocal — punchy, brattish, grounded chest voice with slight rasp, Inspired by early PUFFYAmiYumi-like energy but rawer and more theatrical, Not cute, not airy, not polished, Add a second female vocal for tight two-part harmonies and imperfect unison doubles, Include gang vocals and shouted crowd sing-alongs in the chorus — raw, human, slightly messy, like friends yelling into one mic, Recording feels one-room and physical, Audible breath, string noise, and tempo push-pull, Ends abruptly or explosively
2:37Song Image
three piece garage band, japanese punk with bass groove, snappy war drums, japanese female alto vocals; intimate, raw, sweet but snarling, half step detuned, slow the tempo a little to let it breathe more, the crowd should chant with the vocalist, gang vocals on "Fuck Ice"
4:17Song Image
Mid-tempo 90s J-pop inspired track in D major, 116 BPM, straight 4/4, Clean, disciplined arrangement, Intro builds like climbing a hill: minimal kick and tight 16th hi-hats gradually increasing density, stepwise rising bass (D–E–F#–G–A), clean chorus electric guitar tightening from quarter to 8th strums, Crest with Gadd9–A–D but no triumph, then smooth descending bass (D–C#–B–A), Bright Dmaj7, Bm7, Asus2 textures, Dry municipal drums, crisp snare, restrained reverb, No shoegaze wall, no dramatic swell, no heavy pads, Japanese female alto lead vocal, intimate and clear, pretty but quietly hurting, controlled and emotionally restrained except when she unleashes her strong voice, Subtle breath, vibrato, natural phrasing, English lines slightly cooler and flatter in tone
3:45Song Image
Raw Japanese garage rock with punk and blues influences, Fast, minimal three-piece band with distorted guitar riffs, stubborn basslines, tight aggressive drums, dry lo-fi live-room production, reckless energy, dumb-simple song structure, early-2000s indie underground feel, It should shift and change keys like a child changing their answer when someone offers a better suggestion, They just chase the best thing, quirky alto female vocals that snarl and gnash against authority
3:51Song Image
High-energy garage rock at ~165 BPM, Female alto lead vocals, live, raw, punk, Female, layered three part harmonies, Gang vocals, Call and response, Live energy
3:13Song Image
Fast female-led garage rock trio - Japanese female alto rock vocals, raw, buzzing, fuzz effect, Gang shouts, Sing-a-longs, Strong three part harmonies, Let the bass guitar lead, and electric guitar splatter colors all over, Rhythm guitar should keep the riffs
3:09Song Image
Female alto lead vocal, raspy, raw, intimate, unstable, Slight imperfections, breath-forward delivery, occasional trailing phrases, dynamic surges on key words, no pop melisma or polished vibrato, Follow natural human tempo drift and phrasing — do not quantize or force symmetry, GuitarCapo 3 acoustic guitar centered on Em using Em, Am, F/G#, Cadd9, G, Sparse uneven strumming with silence between phrases, Dynamics must react to the vocal intensity, not anticipate it, No glossy production, no predictable chorus lift, Add minimal foot stomps and second acoustic gradually, imperfect and human, Emotional tone: haunted infrastructure, fragile defiance, signal in noise, One-room live realism
4:39Song Image
post rock by a three piece garage band, who added a friend to play a second guitar for texture but had to record him from his marshall stack and the overhead mic, timing is slippery and slightly off, every instrument is tuned to the rhymth guitar giving the whole thing a slight off center feeling, Vocals are female alto slippery, powerful, sweet but snarling, almost disembodied, heavy echo and reverb, floating female vocal harmonies and ghost notes