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Update: 18 May: Talons'.com passes 2,500 downloads! More music coming this summer as well as the reemergence of actual physical albums, if anyone's interested.
please note: these projects are listed chronologically, not from best to worst. i think it is all worth hearing, but i do think that some things are better to hear first. if i were you, i´d download "rustic bullshit" first, then whatever. "songs for babes" will not be available for download because it is under contract for future release. you can hear demos of the songs on the recordings "ocracoke", "honey gold" and "love in the time of panera". please write me with any problems or concerns, or interests. i'm happy to respond. you will find lyrics and recording notes in pdf form at the end of the document. thanks for you interest! -mt (mgt@nyu.edu)
1.falls' chagrin (2005) >> - this was the first talons' album. recorded over about a year in the attic at diamond shiners. 2.shitty emo (2006) >> - two "demos" for 'rustic bullshit' songs, a trouble books cover and a live version of "fuck everything" recorded in a metal dome on the roof of the famous tangiers in the middle of winter. noisy and very sad. 3.rustic bullshit (2007) >> - a sad short album about getting dumped, drinking, eating junk food, etc. recorded between diamond shiners and my parents house in new phila. probably the best talons' recording other than "songs for babes" (rustic bullshit original 1 track >) - the original version of the record, all combined with different version of the portage path song, singing recorded in a car to minidisc with the music playing over the car stereo. 4.love in the time of panera (2007) >> - four "demos" for 'songs for babes', including a 10 minute version of 'rachel' and a gabe schray cover. 5.okracoke (2007) >> - a one night recording of four songs, two of them instrumental, in the basement of colfax palace. these would be the "happy" talons' songs, and an "ambient" one. it all ties together with the night sounds of august in akron in the background. 6.honey gold (2007) >> - named after my favorite wing sauce at Gyro, these are the four songs about working there, recorded live to cassette on the porch at colfax, also in august. three of the songs would be rerecorded for 'songs for babes' 7.songs for babes (2008) - to be released internationally by Own Records this september 8.stanhope (2008) >> - recorded in a tiny apartment in ridgewood, queens. named after the street we lived on. ramshackly 1-track, 5 songs with a storm in the background. most of it written on four-string dulcimer. (stanhope cut into tracks >) 9. Talons' in HD (2008) >> - the "saddest" talons' songs. recorded in a loft in cleveland in the 'flats' on the coldest day of 2008 (feb 10th i think), in an unfinished room, facing the lake with a tiny space-heater and brian straw's tube mic. no arrangements; just bare songs and singing, with snow falling outside. (iBrows & smiles digi-7" at: actual archives) - two heavily vocoded and bpm'ed electronic songs made in one day here in madrid. ////////////////////complete info & lyrics.pdf (lyrics, recording notes and random additional information. hopefully i'll compile this in book-form along with some song diagrams and more this summer) >> Coming soon: this summer, after i get back to the US, the "treat trilogy" will be finished. 3 eps that sound distinctly different (songs for boats, dubai, pandemia), that will be released together. the next full-album will probably not be done until spring '010
