Can’t Change Your Mind
Can’t Change Your Mind
Talk About Your Problems
Talk About Your Problems Yo yo yo yo. How are we keeping people? When does this madness end? When can we stop talking about the bloody C word? This song is called ‘Talk About Your Problems’. A positive title written in negative times. Now I’m going to level with you. If you hadn’t guessed already, …
How and why I’m treating my music as a business
Happy New Year! Are you enjoying your 2021 so far? Personally, I cannot wait to get a decent pint again. With that said, this extended period of isolation must be used productively, because who knows when we’re going to get another opportunity like it. Currently, productivity in my life primarily revolves around making WEST PARADE …
The Days Are Rolling By
Everything you need to know about this little number, including the official video, breakdown, live performance and where to stream..
‘Keep It D.L.’
Keep It D.L. Happy 2021 everybody! Are you keeping sane, productive, positive? Yeah, me too. It’s tough out there. So far I’ve been keeping the tune taps flowing. Today I wanted to break down some of the process behind my brash and poppy synth-pop number ‘Keep It D.L.’. You can listen to the tune here. …
Never Coming Back
Keep It D.L. Sultry alternative R&B and lush analog synths. I explain how this track came together. The best thing about continually making music is the feeling of progress. Sonically, this track doesn’t sound too dissimilar from an earlier release back in 2018 called Leech. From a production perspective however, it feels like I’ve learnt …
Not Every Weekend
Because who isn’t partial to some whumpy synth and boinky bass? I’m a big believer that the best ideas are often the simplest, but executed well. From a technical perspective, ‘Not Every Weekend’ is a piece of piss. It’s literally two chords throughout the entire song. And yet, to my ears, it’s still quite a …
October
Punchy kicks, phat synths and vintage compression. WEST PARADE’s sound has always drawn influence from electronic dance music, particularly house and techno. It unmistakably comes through in this track, ‘October’. I had been listening to a lot of Caribou, particularly one of his more recent releases: ‘Never Come Back’. He has always had a knack …