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Here you can listen to and download songs from Alex Marczak's latest album: This Mess I've Made.
- Alex Marczak
(Guitars)
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(Piano and Keyboards)
- Alex Marczak
(Programming)
- Alex Marczak
(Recording and Production)
- Alex Marczak
(Vocals)
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About Alex
05/03/2008 12:43:25 By
Alex currently lives in Manchester, where he is lead singer of an as-of-yet unnamed band, lead guitarist with The Modern Ilk, and part of E.B.A Promotions. When he has not been working on these projects, he has been locked away in his bedroom pouring out his frustration at the world's refusal to revolve around him onto his computer, and now here it is for you to listen to!
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For You To Read
05/03/2008 12:34:23 By Alex Marczak
For You To Read is definitely one of my favourite songs on the new album. It used to be a fairly boring acoustic guitar song, and it ended up sounding like this. I came across the sound clip the other day and added it in, I'd been waiting for ages to find the write bit of speech to fit with the song. It's from an interview with an author I've never heard of (think his name is Roger Dean Kiley) and it's just him talking about why he started writing. That's what the song is about, why people who write write. Unsurprisingly, it's often because someone has something to say, but doesn't feel comfortable speaking it, so it gets wrapped up in something creative like a poem or a song. But even more subtle than that, I think that many people write about themselves without even realising it, people scrawl things everywhere that they want other people to find, on tables, on toilet walls, on scraps of paper, even in things like Facebook and Myspace update phrases. There have been times in my life when I've felt that the only way I am actually communicating with someone is through the little messages that are left behind in various tiny pieces of disgardable artwork. Maybe this all seems strange to you, but trust me, there are people all over the place who are just constantly leaving clues everywhere to tell nobody how they're feeling because they don't know how to just say it.
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(Alice) I Hate You
05/03/2008 12:33:53 By Alex Marczak
(Alice) I Hate You is about girls who let things go too far and then punish themselves in strange ways. It's amazing how many girls I know who would do anything to blot out a particular relationship from their past. Maybe this is because guys don't generally feel exploited in the same way that girls do after a breakup. I vividly remember that I came up with the chorus lyrics in the shower! An important thing for you to note is that I barely wrote any of the music in this song, I arranged it and remixed it a bit but it's mostly Gareth Davey's work. All the synths are played by him.
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Elliot's Song
05/03/2008 12:33:17 By Alex Marczak
On a superficial level, Elliot's Song is about watching too much Scrubs (and by too much I mean 15-20 episodes a day...). On a much deeper and more pretentious level, it's about the crazy phenomenon of when you get so involved in the life of fictional characters that you start to confuse them with people in real life. Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about. Well, you know how at the end of a brilliant novel you've been reading all the time you sometimes get a feeling of "oh... it's stopped... what do I do now?" Well, this is just an extension of that. You only need to look at the soap opera culture to realise that people love to get lost in other people's lives and it's all too evident to me that people, including myself, sometimes forget that just because something happens on TV, that's not necessarily the way it works in the real world. (I remember at school that the sort of people that would cause great dramas out of nothing in their relationships often tended to be the type of person that loved to obsessively watch various TV drama series). Well, Elliot's Song is the story about desperately hoping that things will turn out ok, like they would do if they were on TV, and then ultimately giving up hope, because they're not.
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Welcome to www.indiestore.com/thismessivemade
02/03/2008 16:01:05 By 7digital
This Mess I've Made is live on indiestore!
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