Cloudkicker

Beacons

1. We are going to invert…
2. Here, wait a minute! Damn it!
3. We’re goin’ in. We’re going down.
4. Oh, god.
5. I admit it now. I was scared.
6. We were all scared.
7. Push it way up!
8. …it’s just wide open field.
9. It’s bad. We’re hit, man, we are hit.
10. Amy, I love you.
11. Untitled.

[Self-released]
[09/16/10]

2010 was definitely the year of the bedroom musician. Recording and production tools have now progressed to a point whereby you can make a professional-sounding album on a shoestring budget and still have it appear on numerous best of lists at the end of the year. Anyone who read my top ten of 2010 will know how this review is going to go. Whilst not making the final few, Beacons was still an honourable mention, which basically means top fifteen, which is still fucking awesome. Right? Right.

Of course, doing it yourself and micro-managing your own project, level of talent regardless, can have its downsides. The absolute perfectionist will twiddle and tweak; never satisfied, and as a result the endeavour can easily stall through lack of progress. On the other hand, the lazy will neglect to read the necessary manuals, and

So it is only the tenacious individual, patient yet confident, with shed-loads of talent and an ear for quality production that will succeed on their own. Easy then.

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