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  1. Hi Mastodon,

    I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.

    I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/a)

    There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.

    The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown

    Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL

    #songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record

  2. Hi Mastodon,

    I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.

    I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/a)

    There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.

    The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown

    Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL

    #songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record

  3. Hi Mastodon,

    I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.

    I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/a)

    There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.

    The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown

    Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL

    #songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record

  4. Hi Mastodon,

    I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.

    I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/a)

    There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.

    The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown

    Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL

    #songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record

  5. Hi Mastodon,

    I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.

    I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/a)

    There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.

    The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown

    Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL

    #songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record

  6. Recorded #OnThisDay 38 years ago:

    Pixies - Hey (Peel Session)

    Hey by Pixies, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 3 May 1988.

    youtube.com/watch?v=87_9dFp_OtA

    #Pixies #PeelSessions #OTD

  7. Rocking the best post-Pixies album Frank Black ever made, the classic Teenager of the Year which critics for some reason hated when it first came out but it rightfully consider a highlight of his career now.

    #indierock #pixies #alternative #altrock #alternativerock #90s #indie

  8. Of all the bands influenced by Pixies, Tin Machine don't sound like it (but they did cover Debaser, and David Bowie later covered Cactus):

    "...and Bowie looked to one of his favorite bands at the time, Pixies, for inspiration. The Sales brothers heckled Bowie into greater spontaneity, with most songs recorded in one take, and lyrics left unpolished, thus giving the band a ragged, punk rock edge.[9]"

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Mach

    #Pixies #DavidBowie #Bowie #TinMachine

  9. Released today 38 years ago:

    🇺🇸 Pixies "Surfer Rosa" – 1988

    A raw and explosive debut that redefined alternative rock dynamics.
    The band’s signature quiet-loud-quiet structures are pushed to extremes, while the vocals move between surreal abstraction and visceral intensity...

    #pixies #stevealbini #alternativerock #indierock #noiserock #usindie #vinylcommunity #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening

  10. #NowPlaying Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)

    Detalhe é que ganhei o album de presente de natal dos meus cunhados e o disco tem várias referencias a Porto Rico. Bem pertinente, não? Deixo um link (em inglês) falando sobre a relação dúbia do Frank Black e desse album con la isla:

    billboard.com/music/rock/pixie

    @musica
    #pixies #surferrosa #puertorico #music #alternative #indie #vinylrecords #record

  11. Un rezagado de la temporada 2025 que no había escuchado. De la bajista, violinista y cantante argentina Paz Lenchantin, ex A Perfect Circle y ex Pixies: «Triste»

    album.link/s/6yEqvXWYVKJ9WNmrB

    #PazLenchantin #rel2025 #Musica #APerfectCircle #Pixies

  12. Un rezagado de la temporada 2025 que no había escuchado. De la bajista, violinista y cantante argentina Paz Lenchantin, ex A Perfect Circle y ex Pixies: «Triste»

    album.link/s/6yEqvXWYVKJ9WNmrB

    #PazLenchantin #rel2025 #Musica #APerfectCircle #Pixies

  13. Un rezagado de la temporada 2025 que no había escuchado. De la bajista, violinista y cantante argentina Paz Lenchantin, ex A Perfect Circle y ex Pixies: «Triste»

    album.link/s/6yEqvXWYVKJ9WNmrB

    #PazLenchantin #rel2025 #Musica #APerfectCircle #Pixies

  14. Un rezagado de la temporada 2025 que no había escuchado. De la bajista, violinista y cantante argentina Paz Lenchantin, ex A Perfect Circle y ex Pixies: «Triste»

    album.link/s/6yEqvXWYVKJ9WNmrB

    #PazLenchantin #rel2025 #Musica #APerfectCircle #Pixies

  15. Un rezagado de la temporada 2025 que no había escuchado. De la bajista, violinista y cantante argentina Paz Lenchantin, ex A Perfect Circle y ex Pixies: «Triste»

    album.link/s/6yEqvXWYVKJ9WNmrB

    #PazLenchantin #rel2025 #Musica #APerfectCircle #Pixies

  16. This week's #TuneTuesday is #MemorableLine, and Black Francis and the Pixies always have em, all the time-- both in their earlier stuff, and in their more recent ones like this. This is the first one that came to my head.

    "I'm in the arms of Mrs. Mark of Cain"

    What a SONG, man

    youtu.be/YH55PamT5WI

    #Pixies #BlackFrancis

  17. “Hey
    Been trying to meet you
    Hey
    Must be a devil between us
    Or whores in my head
    Whores at the door
    Whore in my bed
    But hey
    Where have you been?
    If you go, I will surely die
    We're chained”

    youtu.be/OdZGvMEeNLw

    #Music #Pixies #Hey

  18. Been working on a 'my favorite Black Francis (aka Charles Thompson IV, the guy from the Pixies) songs', and it's pretty damn tight.. Listening through now, I should post it up somewhere. Currently at 43 songs. Might be less after another listen through or two. But it fucking BANGS. Charles can write some KILLER songs. Easily one of my favorite living songwriters. (I've gone on about him on here before, I know.)

    Fun fact, did you know he has custom guitars made with just the top 4 strings because that's all he uses to write? These are the kinds of useless musical things I know that I usually only bore my wife with, but lucky you, you're reading it now. 😂

    #BlackFrancis #Pixies #ThePixies #CharlesThompson #writing #songwriting

  19. Aller, #Pixies et #PinkFloyd en alternance, ça va 4 jours, on met un autre disque.

    #McCarthy • The Enraged Will Inherit The Earth (Midnight Music, 1989, Optic Nerve Recordings, 2020)

    opticnerverecordings.bandcamp.

    #music #IndieRock