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The Itch (2022 Remaster)

by max_deadroom

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This is a new master of my 2021 single, The Itch.

Why a remaster so soon?

Because I wasn't going to be able to make an instrumental version or to continue to have access to much of the original session without updating my DAW and using different plugins and gear.

Also this one sounds better.

- deadroom management

lyrics

What's another revision
If words from yesterday
May never fit in
The more I rearrange
The more it ends up sounding the same
The more that I erase
The more that I itch
The less I can change

If I keep repeating
The only chord I can play
Do any notes agree when
Your progression
Moves at a different pace
In a key that
Tone or melody
The more I hear you play
The more I mistake
For a harmony

Now after so many listens
The magnetic tape
Starting to ribbon
Even the perfect day
Can become so frayed
Upon revision
A fact I keep finding
Rewinding when I
Do another take
The more I record
And the less I save

(gibberish)

Every verse I throw away
For a face that won't fit
Inside the old frame
When pictures
And words I rehearse
Get taken
Apart and misheard
And all the lines I can trace
From all the pressure my pen has to make
From trying to erase
The ghost I left
On the very next page

So what's another revision
If the words I say today
May never fit in
And tomorrow the remains that I reuse
Married to a tape turned into tissue
For a face that you frame
That no longer fits you
And every picture we take will never hang
If this song is still the same
the song that I sang getting off the plane

The more that I itch it it hurts
I don't want another
The more that I itch the deeper
That I go, What I see
The more that I itch I deserve
What I repeat to no relief
The more that I itch it it hurts
I don't want another
The more that I itch it gets worse
I revise until I bleed
The more that I itch is it worth
What I repeat to no relief
What I repeat to no relief
There must be something
I repeat

credits

released May 20, 2022
Chris Heidel (lapsteel, electric guitar)
Sam Corlett (backing vocals)
Eric Vescelius (electric guitar)
Doug Sours (additional percussion)
Sally McLane (additional vocals)

All other instrumentation and performance by Max Deadroom.

Art by Lexi Maws

special thanks:
Lorne Bregitzer @ CU Denver,
Glenn Davis @ Glenn Davis Audio
Hartley Lewis

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max_deadroom Denver, Colorado

analog avatar quantizing chaos via instrumental & vocal performance of digitally rendered patterns & repetitive frequencies in sequence eliciting an observable degree of potentially affective responses to acoustic exposure in real-time

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