Figuring out the fitting genre for this song was the hardest to nail down of every song on this album. I tried alt-country, art punk, alternative metal, dub-weighted boom bap, milonga, sophisti-pop, rembetiko, and cantautori. Only when I tried the obscure tishoumaren the result felt right, and I had to discard some of my original assumptions about what emotions the song should render. I’m quite happy with the final result.
Category: Inteligencia artificial
New song “Knife-Beard Dreams (psychedelia version)” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 4
This is the second song of the fourth album, after the wild opener “A Tribute a True a Work of a Art.”
Both “Knife-Beard Dreams” songs were produced about two years ago, during the tail end of the Udio era, and it shows, sadly: the musical composition is way more elaborate than what Suno produces natively or what you can coax out of it as far as I can tell. Whether that makes for better songs in general, I’m not entirely sure, but my OCD nature misses that old workflow.
Covers of “Tricera Girl” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1
A couple of weeks ago or so, I uploaded a YouTube video that contained four covers of this song, from the middle-school period of William Griffin’s life. He’s the protagonist of the Odes to My Triceratops song cycle. But I found issues with the audio quality, caused by a faulty pipeline. Although that’s now fixed, I’ve needed to fix the songs involved, and I also created two more for good measure, so the new video has six covers.
“Tricera Girl” is one of my favorite songs of the first album. It embodies very well the wonder and desire of an early teenager who realizes he’s found the love of his life and doesn’t quite know how to handle it.
New song “Eternal Diner” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 4
I originally intended a gentle rocksteady vibe for this song, but throughout my sweep for alternative genres, I tried Nashville sound, and it clicked perfectly. This song has become the closest feeling I’ve ever produced to inhabiting the 70s, as far as I think of them.
Covers of “Burying the Beast” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 3
The original is one of my favorite songs of the third album. Suno showed its limitations covering it. No amount of restructuring made Suno understand the peculiar drums build-up that the original song had towards the end, but I’m still happy with these two covers.
New song “A Tribute a True a Work of a Art (post-punk version)” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 4
This song launches the fourth album, right after William seemingly kills himself right at the end of the previous album. I made this song, along with about four others of this album, during the last stretch when Udio was usable.
You could tell, unfortunately, that Udio was involved in the production of this song, because the composition is far more complex than what Suno 6.0 produces, even when you directly remix the original Udio song. That was due to Udio allowing the generation of 30-seconds-long segments at a time, and letting you extend the song in either direction as you pleased. No service allows that anymore, not sure why. You can hear the entirety of the original Udio song, not the Suno remixes, at the end of the video.
New Song “Piss in the Mouth of the Lord” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 4
Second song of the Suno 6.0 era, going through my unrendered set of song lyrics for this latest part of William’s story.
This one had an interesting pre-production stage: I had assumed I was going to pursue the default post-hardcore with dark punk route for this song, but when I swept exhaustively through my list of genres, this unorthodox combination came up (funk rock with candombe), and it was just the right kind of unhinged and angry to fit. I briefly also considered making it an art pop with progressive rock piece, which would have chased after “Bohemian Rhapsody.” I’m happy how this song eventually came out. Quite the difficult lyrics to conceptualize musically in a way that would fit them properly.
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