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Demonstration Tapes: Make You Better
Demonstration Tapes

Demonstration Tapes: Make You Better

Your twinges, sung

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Mar 10, 2023
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One of the earlier songs written for the WATW,WABW sessions, “Make You Better” existed as little fragments in the notebook for a few years before it became a song. Here I am, with the chords and the rhythm shape barely under my control, recording a home demo to share with the band. There’s a scappy-ness here that’s maybe gone in the final recording, but that’s what happens when you actually learn how a song goes, I suppose. Anyway, you heard it here first, paid Machinists, the home demo of “Make You Butter”:

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