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X-Sweet - Happy Life

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Eric sings for you!

I'm in the middle of recording my next "normal" album, a vocal, Eric-sings-and-shit record of songs rather than big noisy soundscapes and jams. Maybe TWO of them. (I'm working on 20+ songs right now.)

And I figured in order to grease the path, I'd put my previous such effort on Bandcamp. Hard to believe it's been 12 years!

I am proud of this record. It often sounds like my noisy guitar efforts, but wrapped around actual songs I can (and do) sit around and play on acoustic guitar. After many 'songs" efforts, this is the first where I felt I "got there," so to speak.

I've recorded a decent number of "normal" albums since I started in the late '90s, but this one from 2010s is the first one where I felt like it all fell into place pretty well.

Download the full record and you'll get a 9-minute bonus track, a song with a sound I love but at the last minute decided wasn't right for the record. I might have been wrong. Who knows? ... more

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1.	The Key to a Happy Life 04:23	info	buy track
2.	Went Away 04:41		buy track
3.	Down Down 04:37		buy track
4.	So Much Blood 03:21		buy track
5.	We Are Walking Avatars 04:39		buy track
6.	Magic Nights 03:49		buy track
7.	Summer Bottles 05:28		buy track
8.	Ma vie est terminée 01:22		buy track
9.	The First is Last 03:27		buy track
10.	At the Window 03:04		buy track

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Normal songs with singing and everything. An attempt to merge my guitar soundscapes and experiments with "normal" songs.

BONUS TRACK with download of the album

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released July 4, 2010

Music and sounds by Eric San Juan
Backing vocals on "Summer Bottles" by NESJ
Additional guitar on "The Key to a Happy Life" by RSJ

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guitar soundscapes and drones. m2 is unadorned expression with the guitar, written, recorded and conceived exactly as it first spills out of the amp. never planned, always improvised. recommended if you like my bloody valentine, lovesliescrushing, azusa plane, flying saucer attack. all music by eric san juan. ... more

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