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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.....: 1032kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://greenbuzzard.com
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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
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,: 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. It sounds like a coming of ':
,: age. :,
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