: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Green Buzzard : Album.......: Amidst The Clutter & Mess : : Label.......: I Oh You .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: IOU310 . ' Source......: CDR , ; Rip.date....: 2019-11-28 Str.date....: 2019-11-08 Quality.....: 279kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://greenbuzzard.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Country Life 3:51 2. I Don't Want To Be Alone 2:42 3. To Be Like You 3:08 4. Forget You 3:54 5. Wooden Dog 6:12 6. Clutter & Mess 4:11 7. Aches The Heart 3:26 8. Nothing's Wasted 5:01 9. Put Me Under 3:19 10. Nothing's Happening Here 5:43 11. Suburban Dreaming 4:44 12. Masquerader 3:27 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 49:38 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 104.23______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: 2017 was a weird year for Paddy Harrowsmith, the man behind :, : SydneyÆs Green Buzzard. After releasing the ôSpace Man Rodeo EPö : :' the band had dissolved into a solo project, his relationship ': ,: had broken up and he found himself swimming in the classic :, : late-20s malaise of, ôwho am I and what the hell am I doing with : :' my life?ö ': ,: :, : ôAfter the band, I was a kind of disillusioned with music and : :' took a bit of time off away from it. I wasnÆt really sure what ': ,: to do,ö Paddy says. ôæAmidst the Clutter & MessÆö was one of the :, : first songs I wrote in that period. I was trying to work out if : :' I still wanted to make music and if I did, what music I wanted ': ,: to make. I wasnÆt really sure where my place was as a white :, : guitar playing guy. I wasnÆt really comfortable making music : :' anymore. That song came out and set the tone for what the album ': ,: was going to be.ö :, : : :' The songs that followed started to paint a picture of ': ,: Harrowsmith wading through the clutter and the mess of confusion :, : to not only work out what kind of music he wanted to make, but : :' to also make sense of the world around him and to find his ': ,: place in it. :, : : :' Armed with an albumÆs worth of songs, Paddy found himself, ': ,: physically at least, in producer Dave SitekÆs rambling studio in :, : the Glendale Hills in California. Home not only to the eccentric : :' Sitek (production wizz behind Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio ': ,: and Weezer), but also to his Russian sound engineer, his brother :, : who tends to SitekÆs organically farmed marijuana plants : :' throughout the house and property, ôCuzö, his housekeeper and ': ,: childhood friend from Baltimore who sits in the garage all day :, : making necklaces out of pine cones, three huskies, three cats, : :' and an inexplicable number of BB guns. ': ,: :, : It seemed PaddyÆs mental clutter had found its perfect physical : :' counter-part. Strange then that out of the seeming mania of ': ,: SitekÆs space, came the simple mantra of less is more. :, : : :' ôIt was haphazard,ö laughs Harrowsmith, ôbut there was ': ,: definitely method to his madness.ö And Sitek knew how he wanted :, : the album to sound. ôHe loved the songs themselves, but didnÆt : :' like the way the demos sounded,ö says Paddy. ôAnd didnÆt at all ': ,: want to do that kind of sound, ie make it all fuzzed out. A :, : couple of the tunes had a bit of a Smashing Pumpkins, layered : :' guitars kind of vibe going and he was like, ôNo, IÆm not ': ,: interested in doing thatö.ö :, : : :' Instead they began recording each track by stripping it back to ': ,: just acoustic guitar, de-cluttering the song, and then :, : rebuilding it back up with just its essential parts. ôOnce we : :' had acoustic, drums and bass on every track we kind of listened ': ,: back and were like, ôYou know what? TheyÆre sounding great right :, : now as is, we kind of donÆt even want to add much more onö, : :' Paddy says. ôIt was him constantly drilling into me a less is ': ,: more thing. At one point I was trying to do a fiddly guitar :, : overdub and he was like, ôYou fucking indie guitarists man!ö and : :' named the track ôPaddy Over-Doing Itö.ö ': ,: :, : The result is a textured and perfectly crafted indie rock record : :' and while itÆs far from being anywhere near a singer-songwriter ': ,: record, thereÆs a very human impetus at the heart of each song: :, : one person singing their song to you. ôA real big inspiration : :' for that was Beck,ö says Paddy. ôCos you can always hear that ': ,: in his music. Even though thereÆs so much going on around him, :, : it does actually sound like itÆs all within one guy. ItÆs not : :' folk or anything like that, but you can hear that itÆs just him ': ,: in there.ö :, : : :' This newfound clarity and directness also allows another aspect ': ,: of HarrowsmithÆs growth as a tunesmith to shine. ôThis is the :, : first time the song writing has really reflected whatÆs going on : :' in my personal life,ö he says. On earlier releases Paddy had ': ,: pushed his own story to the background, choosing to tell :, : fictional, conceptual and character driven stories over his own. : :' ôI think it was a defence mechanism, a way to mask a lot of ': ,: things,ö he says. This time though, his life and thoughts are :, : front and centre. : :' ': ,: Across its 12 tracks, the record covers a lot of themes: break :, : ups (I DonÆt Want To Be Alone), resignation (NothingÆs Happening : :' Here), the desire to up stumps and retreat to a rural idyll ': ,: (Country Living), acerbic takedowns of SydneyÆs greedy excesses :, : (Suburban Dreaming) and existential confusion, as life and the : :' future seem to stretch out into uncertainty (Wooden Dog). ': ,: :, : Ultimately though, Amidst the Clutter and Mess is a statement : :' about learning to be comfortable with yourself, no longer ': ,: keeping the world at armÆs length by telling fictional stories, :, : or hiding behind fuzz and overproduction. And for a debut : :' record, that makes perfect sense. 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