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Volume III: Easy

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9 songs
4:04Song Image
A fragile, late-night chamber-pop haze built on soft nylon guitar, dusty upright piano, and brushed-felt drums moving like a heartbeat half-asleep, Warbly tape flutter wraps every instrument, giving the mix an intimate, out-of-phase glow, Analog synth pads breathe gently behind haunting violin swells, creating a lullaby-fog atmosphere that feels both close and distant, Vocals stay tender, breath-warm, almost whispered, with ghostly harmonies drifting in like memory fragments, The emotional palette is dreamy, introspective, and slightly surreal—like watching yourself through someone else’s home-movie projector, fragile and floating, pretty in ways you don’t recognize
4:21Song Image
Floating 6/8 dream-folk built from soft acoustic arpeggios, breathy vocals, and Mellotron pads that wobble like old film stock, Brushed drums move gently under warm analog bass, while a small chamber-string ensemble swells in and out like slow tide, Reverb feels planetarium-wide—domes of soft echoes around an intimate core, Harmonies stack in airy layers, sometimes three-part, sometimes vanishing into whispers, The emotional palette is introspective, hazy, quietly cosmic: the sense of seeing yourself from outside your body, drifting through other people’s memories, soft and uncanny, The whole track feels like a lucid dream set to old slide-projector light—warm, ghostly, achingly human
4:48Song Image
A 70 BPM velvet-smoke noir lounge slow-burn, built on upright bass walking with predatory elegance, brushed silk drums, and a muted trumpet that moans like a confession behind red velvet curtains, The Wurlitzer drips with vintage supper-club charm, panned wide and warm, while the vocals — smoky, commanding — deliver every line with sly control, burlesque restraint, and dangerous confidence, Textures glide between late-night jazz seduction, cabaret-dark soul, and predator-quiet swing, each section blooming from intimate whisper to sly theatrical flourish, The analog haze, and candlelit ambience pull the track into a sultry, slow-motion world where power shifts on breath and gaze, not volume, Mood: erotic tension, velvet threat, a sly smile that knows too much — a perfect modern noir centerpiece for a dim-glow club at the end of the night
5:23Song Image
A slowcore dream-pop piece (64–68 BPM) that dissolves more than it arrives, Production is weightless and enveloping: long-tailed reverbed electric guitar chords forming a fog bed, brushed snare murmurs barely cresting above silence, and analog synth pads kept almost imperceptible, Single piano notes appear like distant reflections, never resolving, Vocals are androgynous, whisper-level, often A/B double-tracked, with reversed vocal fragments bleeding in and out like memory residue, Dynamics favor slow bloom and decay, no hard edges, no clear center—melancholy felt as atmosphere rather than statement, The mix should feel intimate but unreachable, as if overheard through steam and glass, ‑choral-led choruses, ‑shouted group chants
5:12Song Image
A 62–66 BPM dreampop / minimalist indie electronic ballad that lives in negative space and emotional erosion, Production should feel wide, hushed, and inward, with heavily reverbed electric guitar chords blooming slowly and dissolving into analog synth pads that breathe like fog, Brushed snare and soft mallet percussion act as a distant pulse rather than rhythm, while faint tape hiss anchors the song in vulnerability, Vocals are lush female leads, close-mic’d and fragile, layered into soft choirs that feel like echoes of the self, Dynamics stay restrained; the ache comes from contrast between digital perfection and human presence, Nothing rushes, The song should feel like being seen—but only through glass
5:38Song Image
A 72–86 BPM slowcore / indie folk piece built on restraint, afterimage, and emotional near-miss, Arrangement should feel nearly weightless, with detuned fingerpicked acoustic guitar carrying most of the harmonic weight, supported by sporadic upright piano single notes that arrive like thoughts you didn’t mean to have, Distant upright bass and subtle bowed cello enter sparingly, more as breath and gravity than melody, Vocals are hushed, intimate, almost overheard, often sitting just above room tone with faint tape hiss and ambient noise left intact, Dynamics stay flat and patient—no payoff, no swell—only accumulation, The emotional core lives in implication: lives almost intersecting, meaning just outside reach, the ache of what never needed to be said to still matter, ‑choral-led choruses, ‑shouted group chants
4:52Song Image
This is wide-open, cathartic indie rock with cosmic Americana lift—a song built for the exact moment someone stops shrinking and starts taking up air, Tempo sits around 110 BPM, driving but breathable, with a sense of forward motion that never lets up, Urgent piano is the spine: percussive, almost defiant in the verses, then blooming into big, open voicings in the chorus, Stereo acoustic guitars strum with momentum, later joined by saturated electrics that widen the horizon without turning heavy, Analog synth swells act like weather—rolling in behind emotional peaks, lifting the chorus into something cinematic, Live drums are punchy and physical, leaning on toms and crashes for that anthemic, heart-in-the-throat feel, Vocals are soaring, fearless, and uncontained, moving from intimate resolve to full-throated declaration, supported by group shoutalongs that feel communal rather than polished, The emotional arc is liberation through refusal, ‑bitterness, ‑apology, ‑choral-led choruses, ‑shouted group chants
4:07Song Image
Low-lit, after-midnight noir with a languid, cinematic pulse, Tempo sits unhurried (≈70–74 BPM feel), letting upright bass walk patiently while brushed drums breathe space, Woozy Rhodes carries harmony with late-night voicings; subtle horn stabs arrive like passing glances—never dominant, always suggestive, The smoky female vocal stays close-mic and intimate, leaning into restraint and negative space; pauses matter as much as notes, Keep the mix warm, analog, and room-forward, with gentle tape bloom and soft transients, Emotion lives in the almost: tension without release, desire held just shy of the fall, ‑bitterness, ‑apology, ‑choral-led choruses, ‑shouted group chants
5:20Song Image
A twilight chamber-pop performance built on restraint and breath, Tempo floats 66–70 BPM, with phrases allowed to lean and recover naturally, Nylon-string guitar anchors the harmony in close mic, fingers audible; single-note upright piano punctuates like remembered footsteps, Distant upright bass and faint cello arrive sparingly, swelling only to underline emotional turns, never to lead, Keep room tone and tape hiss present—silence is part of the arrangement, Vocals are hushed, intimate, and unforced, riding the edge of audibility; dynamics feel inhaled rather than pushed, Mix warm, narrow, and human—no gloss, no climax—just a steady walk forward, ‑bitterness, ‑apology, ‑choral-led choruses, ‑shouted group chants