Song for Week 46 – “Leave My Letter in the Breakers”

Hello everyone,

Here’s another new song. And we’ll be back soon with another… before Thanksgiving, I would bet! Thanks for listening,

Matt and Jen

Leave My Letter in the Breakers

Song for Week 45 – “Sing It Like You Used To”

Here’s our latest song! I’m happy with our arrangement on this… it’s pretty different for us. Minimal guitar and percussion, and a bunch of synths. Hope you enjoy.

Matt and Jen

Sing It Like You Used To

Song for Week 44 – “Let’s Turn The Record Over (Elliott Smith cover)”

hello!

Here is the second of two covers we planned for this year; our version of the unreleased Elliott Smith tune “Let’s Turn The Record Over.” To say that Elliott is one of our musical heroes would be an understatement. It was great fun to work on this cover.

The original version of the song can be heard here.

And here’s our version:
Let’s Turn The Record Over (Elliott Smith Cover)

Song for Week 43 – “Drop Back In”

Whoops! This song has been done for about a week and I forgot to post it. Special thanks to our pal Mikey C. for providing whistling, handclaps and big-singalong-background vox!

hope you dig,

Matt and Jen and Mike

Drop Back In

Song for Week 42 – “Me & My Violent Tendencies”

Hello sports fans,

So, Jen and I were both sick last week (and Jen still is somewhat sick). Jen lost her voice almost entirely, and I lost the ability to speak without sounding incredibly nasal… SO! Instrumental. Perhaps we’ll add words at some point and lengthen it out. But for now, it is what it is, and we like it!

Matt and Jen

Me & My Violent Tendencies (Instrumental)

Song for Week 41 – “Out Past the Junkyards”

New song! Featuring pots ‘n’ pans percussion and the debut of my banjo in this project of ours. And a title thematically similar to last week’s song, because… why not?

Hope you dig it.

Matt and Jen

Out Past the Junkyards

ps. For this week’s upcoming song, we were originally going to do a cover tune… but now Jen and I are both sick and neither of us can sing. So we might do an instrumental instead. Hard to say right now.

Song for week 40 – “Out Past the Arcade

Here it is, our song for week 40, “Out Past the Arcade.” Forty weeks we’ve been doing this. Crazy! A dozen songs to go. A dozen weeks left of the Aughts.

Thanks for listening,

Matt and Jen

Out Past the Arcade

Songs for weeks 38 and 39 – “My Only Destination/Half a Girl”

Well, we finally got the medley idea to work! Some of you may remember we’ve tried, and abandoned, this idea before. But, we gave it another crack this week (and last week) and finally got something we felt worked as a two-parter. And here they are! Listen to ‘em in order!

My Only Destination

Half A Girl

Song for Week 37 – “Before The Stars”

Hey, folks! Here’s a new song, the second this week. We’re trying to get caught up. Week 37 was actually LAST week… so now we just have to do one more and we’re right back on track. Anyway…

Every once and a while, everything seems to just come together for a song, and that was the case for this tune. We had a really fun time recording this. I got some nice finger-picking practice in and Jen nailed the keyboard parts, I think! So anyway, please have a listen and let us know what you think.

Back soon with another!
Jen AND Matt

Before The Stars

Song for Week 36 – “Faker, Baby”

Here is a new song! See you real soon with another one!

Faker, Baby