Free Album! – In Our Dreams We’re Flying
In Our Dreams We’re Flying is a sort of a folk-rock album about people and stuff.
This has been a lot of work, but in the modern world of home recording, it hasn’t cost a lot of money. The music industry is also ridiculous, and music is nice, so it’s free. No catch, but you can choose to pay something for it via my Bandcamp page if you so desire. You can also download it from there in a few more formats. I hope you like it, and if you do, the best thing you can do is tell a couple of other people about it.
My old album (Walking Under Ladders) is still for sale for a fixed price because it’s printed on physical CDs – which cost money. However this album, in my own opinion at least, is better. I put the older album together with similar equipment but a lot less experience.
Mastering was done in-house (literally in my house), but much care has been taken to get a hopefully professional-sounding end result.
Formats
Tracks are offered as MP3 or FLAC.
- .mp3 – Encoded via command-line using LAME with the -V 2 preset (what used to be –alt-preset standard). VBR with an average bitrate around 192Kbps. 16-bit, 44.1Khz.
- .flac – Encoded using Audacity at level 5. Also 16-bit, 44.1Khz.
Licence
All tracks on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand License.
Other Tracks
Be warned: This is mostly stuff that didn’t make the cut and didn’t subsequently get fixed up for the album.
The Band Is Playing MP3 FLAC lyrics
“And they only sing the truth / So they only sing ‘I am’”
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People Like You MP3 FLAC lyrics Video
This is the old version of People Like You. It’s a completely different song to the one on the album, but the lyrics have the same theme. I didn’t like this one so much so I wrote a new one.
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Etiquette MP3 FLAC lyrics
“There’s a subtle dissonance in sympathetic resonance / Reminiscent of the things we say
There’s a harsher undertone / But it goes away”
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Stuck In The LoopMP3 FLAC lyrics
(Don’t Get) …
Going for an old recording sort of sound on the earlier part of this. Not sure if it was a good idea or not.
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Giving Back MP3 FLAC lyrics
This was supposed to have a bridge/chorus as well as the verses but more lyrics didn’t add anything, it’s finished as it is anyway. So you get an instrumental bridge/chorus instead with nice chord structure. I realised a while ago that the last verse rhymes “things” with “things”, which is terrible, so I changed “…always try to take her things” to “…always try to clip her wings.” But then I forgot. So the lyrics file reflects how it should be, not how it is.
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A Complex Thing – Banjolele version MP3 FLAC lyrics
“And real life is a complex thing to calculate.”
This is simple a version of A Complex Thing with banjolele!
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