Hi!
I wrote most of the lyrics for this song back in 2015, and finally finished it last year.
Then a couple of months ago, I relistened to the very first very rough scratch vocal recording of the idea and thought the more involved arrangement I’d finally settled had lost a little of that recording’s charm. So this month, I made a more impressionist version that hews closer to the demo. You can hear that next week, when I'll also write up the lyrics and say a little about them.
This week, you get the more involved arrangement. I was having great fun experimenting singing with really exaggerated vibrato at the time of recording, which will be clear within a few lines.
I was in a bit of a rush to get these two tunes ready before I left on a trip yesterday, so I'll probably tweak the mixes a bit when I get back, but I already do that all the time without your knowing.1 ;-)
And here's a version without vocals for when you desperately need to sing a Steve on Steve quasi-banger at karaoke.
I think the main vocal sound I arrived at for last week’s Fuck All Your Dreams is the tone I've been searching for. It's certainly not appropriate for every tune, but I think it's my new Steve on Steve gold standard.