Synth Punk. 3 song EP on #WEATNU Records.
Synth Punk | Industrial | Minimal EBM
Story behind the song
3 song Obscurity Stunt EP released 5 Oct. 2014. On #WEATNU Records
Regression to the Mean was recorded as a series of "live" "1-track"overlays. Beat recorded live with reverb and delay effects added as it played. Keyboard, guitar and vocals were added directly to the track as live takes all the way through, no editing or treatments. The vocals were done through a tube screamer distortion pedal. The sample is from a gov't archived film circa 1940s about highways and was added last, the only part of the track edited in DAW.
Lyrics
Leaves an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach
Swimming in a tide of consumer economics
Material disease and ownership is the tonic
It's eating away
Mine until I say immoral mental malfunction
Blood is boiling hot from an internal combustion
I try to gain advantage, display little compunction
Don't want to be a cog in the machine of production
Regression to the mean
"Steadily as the hands of the clock
a mighty flow of men and machines on every highway
so that you and I may have fuel for our cars tomorrow
so that you and I may read the newspaper tomorrow
so that tomorrow we may have electric power
fresh bread right out of the oven
the commodities we require
the luxuries we've become accustomed to"
Anxiety, uncertainty, I'm feeling unstable
Review the current standing got no seat at the table
Keep on with the struggle just as long as I'm able
