The Lovely Life EP
This past year has been crazy with Mint’s success, traveling, speaking, and getting married yet somehow I’ve managed to write more songs in this past year than in the two preceding it. Most are in varying stages of completion but I’ve decided to put three of them out there as a virtual 7” complete with sleeve (unfortunately not to scale—curse my web-centric-ness).
Notes about each song including lyrics can be found on the individual song page linked below. If anyone is interested in remixing or contributing programming or additional instrumentation to these tracks, let me know and I’ll post the Garage Band files.
- The Lovely Life EP PDF sleeve (downloaded 2167 times)
- Lovely Life (downloaded 4159 times) lyrics/notes
- Still Life (Rug) (downloaded 1847 times) lyrics/notes
- This Modern Life (downloaded 3681 times) lyrics/notes
023 Comments
Wow. That’s amazing. Can’t wait to hear those tunes. They’ll be surely appreciated as I am in need of good music to work to. Cheers!
Nice work Inman! This Modern Life is an excellent song! I love the layering of the acoustics you’ve got going on Lovely Life. It would be cool if I could add some techno beats (David Crowder style) to This Modern Life via Reason. I’ve yet to work in Garage Band..am going to check into porting a Reason file to Garage Band this week. Any way I could get the GB file for The Modern Life from you?
Cheers!
At first I was going to pass on hearing someone “famous” (okay, not really famous, but famous to me) sing. Have you ever heard Omar Vizquel sing? Bad stuff. But then I saw David Crowder’s name in the comments and I decided to give a listen. Good stuff.
Congrats Shaun, What an amazing album you’ve made. Love the music. Keep on composing!
Nice work. I can hear Lovely Life with some house beats on it, and This Modern Life as a pop-punk anthem…
Very nice!
What kind of equipment do you record with? Just a mic straight into Garageband? What kind if so? You’re getting great quality there…
I love Modern Life. Keep up the great stuff.
I dig this stuff. Lovely. :)
And great CD sleeve art, too!
Thanks for your comments everyone.
Adam: I just realized that I’m still working with Garage Band 2 (and the This Modern Life source files are almost 200MB ). I need to update my copy of iLife but since I plan on buying a new computer soon (iLife would come with it) I might have to wait and put that $80 towards the computer. In the meantime can you work with the mp3 knowing that the bpm is 120? I’m no human metronome but I didn’t stray too far from the click track.
Kevin: I’d be wary too. Thanks for giving it a shot. I’ve never heard of David Crowder before. Two mentions in one thread? I’ll have to check him out.
Travis: It’s all recorded using Garage Band (2.02), a Yamaha acoustic guitar and the Samson C01U condenser microphone. This mic totally blows out the bass so I use some bass reduction filters in Garage Band to compensate. This Modern Life actually has a bass line but I had to cut it because I couldn’t get a good recording and I wasn’t happy with the one I programmed in Garage Band (I haven’t figured out how to do slides when musically typing).
Rosewood?! You better hope DIN doesn’t find out…
Jina: I threw together the album art pretty quickly. The cover photo should be a blast from the past for some.
Dan: Rosewood Fill of all things! How uneducated of me. Din is pouting in the copyright notice.
I’m hooked on ‘Moden Life’, it’s on the third time round now. I’m in love with the layering on ‘Lovely Life’, it works really erll.
I might lay down some bass on them tomorrow (if that’s alright of course); being in between bands I’m playing every chance I get! If it’s any good I’ll drop you a line.
The artwork is sweet — fits the sound nicely. I love how your ‘si’ logo looks like a record labels’. Nice.
Shaun,
You make so wonderful love to the guitar. The note sings to me as fly like birds around my head. Very well performance my friend!
Franc Pung
Wow ! Your music is truly awesome, I listened to it the whole day, and I just can’t get enough !
Thank you for these tracks (and for the free download).
Shaun, yes. I remember that layout well. I just didn’t remember the bed. :)
Awesome work Shaun. The layered acoustic guitar tracks sound awesome. The vocals and the layers/ stereo effects give it a Postal Service vibe (which is a very good thing).
I’d just like to echo the previous comments. Very cool music. Keep it up!
Great tunes, it’s the kind of stuff I like to listen to whilst i’m working - mellow, relaxing and simple. Is there anything the mighty Inman can’t do?!
shaun, u totaly rock.
Shaun - I know you said the files are big, but I am really interested in taking a shot at remixing. If you email me, I can give you ftp info and you could upload them (if you aren’t enjoying the thought of people with no intent to actually remix downloading 200 meg files just because they are posted).
you are a good shaun !!! awesome music !
Would be interesting to add some extra into or synths even. Also maybe even a slight tambourine or conga?
For inspiration
I suggest listening to the Posies for singing harmonies.
Also the band Helium, eg The Dirt of Luck 1995 on Matador records, also check anything with the singer (solo)
I just posted the Garage Band 3 source files as promised! Do your worst guys—or your best—however you feel inclined.