./Cy - Hard Work | 2015-07-30
Hard work sucks. I don't want to work hard. I want to be lazy. I mean, I say that but I also believe in being as productive as I can with stuff like this. I just hate work-work.
// also known as Girls With Depression, Competitor Product, Cy Parker, Caleb Caulfield, Sigh Music, Cy Brazanthr, Cypriots Leon Brazanthr, Cy Nothing, and some other names I'm probably forgetting (lol)
// If I don't change very much, I don't feel like I'm really being myself.
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Cy's songs cause strong feelings. From the controversial naming decisions (such as "Girls With Depression") to the barely flinching storytelling. Even the bonkers pop sensibility is probably gonna make you feel some type of way or another.
Cy went to art school and if you met him, you'd think he was hella pretentious but actually he's just like that. He wrote this text you're reading in the third person and didn't even feel bad about it. When he's not busy hating himself, he loves himself a lot. He puts a lot of effort into making this music and he desperately wants you to like it.
If you send Cy an e-mail, he'll read it and probably send a surprisingly long response. If you ask nicely, you can also be added to a list of people who get to hear each song new when it is first made and desperately needs critique.
Cy can't actually play any instruments and considers acoustic instruments to be kind of like toys. He regrets that he can't just be a computer himself and likes to parrot his own slogan, "Nothing is real until it's pixels."
He's actually not that arrogant. He's just pretending so that you will like him.
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// You can download my tracks in MP3 format. I'm a sucker for the MP3 format because I'm nostalgic about obsolete technology.
// These songs do not have consistent ID3 tags or filenames. They are not mastered together and volume will fluctuate across songs. Some songs may be WIP or have unfinished mixes. Send me an e-mail and tell me what you think.
// I sing on most of them, usually with a lot of effects but sometimes I leave my voice pretty naked. I'm still working on being a better musician than I am but I try really hard and I work at it every day because I want to write really great songs.
./Cy - Hard Work | 2015-07-30
Hard work sucks. I don't want to work hard. I want to be lazy. I mean, I say that but I also believe in being as productive as I can with stuff like this. I just hate work-work.
./Cy - It Was Clear That I Was Bad | 2015-07-28
This song was loosely based on how my sister got kicked out of out of school when she was a teenager for bringing wine to a school dance and how that eventually led to her not graduating from the high school. (She got a GED instead. Years later, she went to rehab and now she has a kid.) It's not literally her story. It's a similar one that I played with for the song and the storytelling.
This song also features live tambourine and a live synth, the Gakken SX-150. I know the bio says the thing about live instruments being crappy but that's just sensationalism and I'm trying to get better at using them. I feel like they're really improving my songs.
2015-07-30 // I went back in and re-recorded the vocals, extended the intro, changed the mix, and added more ornamentation. The original version is here.
./Cy - Bad Americans | 2015-07-24
I'm trying to get better at playing live percussion. This song has live tambourine and shaker tracks, plus a lot of big vocal stacks. Lyrically, I'm waxing a lil political but not really cuz I'm actually just trying to emotionally blame the economy on people like me.
So if you feel like you're a little bit personally responsible for the economy too, you're in the right place. We can be so not chill about it together.
./Cy - Theme Song for a Road Trip to Chicago | 2015-07-23
I've never been to Chicago but I did get a book from the thrift store full of pictures from Chicago in the '80s and I tried to use that as a songwriting tool. Song is kind of maniac and thoughtless but I like the way I sang on it.
./Cy - Getting Smaller As We Go.mp3 | 2015-06-28
I wanted to make a song about what it's like to be alive when you do so much of your self-expression in a tiny electronic device. I wanted to approach it without judgement and make something that felt so real it was dumb. This one is ahead of its time. It's going to be better when it's insanely dated.
./Cy - You're Confident and Fun.mp3 | 2015-06-30
This is a song which takes a story of something that literally happened and turns it into life advice for anyone who is lacking confidence. You are welcome, insecure people, for this tip on how to smoothly be generous so that people will like you and hang out with you later even when you're not giving them free beer.
./Cy - They R Not Sorry.mp3 | 2014-12-18
I thought it'd be cool to write a song about how college was kind of useless. I thought that people would relate to that and I also thoughtI could do a decent British accent. I kinda feel like it worked out on this one but for a while, I forgot about it. It wasn't thrilling me at the time I made it and I didn't find it again til July 2015. I'm grooving to it now.
./Cy - These Are the Ways That I Deal With Loneliness.mp3 | 2015-06-20
This was a list-based song. I came up with the prompt and wrote down the things I did when I was lonely. Then I sang them. Pretty raw stuff. Kinda cheesy at the same time. Fun guitar-like distorted tone running through the song.
./Cy - I've Let Them Become Useless | 2015-06-19
I wanted to make a song that sounded like Ladytron but also I was bummed about my complicity in the destruction of Earth's habitability for humans. Ladytron is a real inspiration to me. My favorites by them are "Seventeen," "Blue Jeans," and "Playgirl." Look them up.
./Cy - I Want to Like Killing.mp3 | 2015-06-27
I Want to Like Killing" is an autotune-heavy electropop song with a preachy anti-violent message and a dangerous attempt to empathize with people who shoot up their schools.
./Cy - List of Things I Am Afraid Of.mp3 | 2015-06-23
The lyrics to this song were originally written as a list all plain, just like the title. Then I made the beat and I sang them. I dig the way it is.
./Cy - There's No Such Thing.mp3 | 2015-06-25
This is some kind of raw, '80s-and-autotune pop song thing I did. It questions masculinity and selfish emotionally-driven consumerism. haha
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// photos of Cy by Jessica Lee Berry, song artwork by Cy
