Since approximately 2003 boyd has been recording strange renditions of alt-anti/pro-folk-pop psychedelia track by track on computers and without. and spending time and not spending time deciding whether it should be heard. Mainly written for the sake of listening to these songs on repeat, and a feeling now of wanting to "get serious." so, 90 or 100 songs have been made in 4 years, some covers that don't sound like covers and some covers that do.
AND in a whirlwind of lazy echo, simply all those things unrealized / sprawled out on paper / the end of the day and can't sleep/dream just that like the famous Townes said "I think my life will run out before my , uh, work does" and a reminder , a vision, words crammed to fit new loves and old ideas with those new chapters still not written in the volcano spirit a sea change , tides come and go the mixture of felt and unfelt - and just gotta keep on moving types of feelings , that haunting winding road of future songs and past, confusion remorse love giving taking waking eating walking running soft stepping through those things just left behind.
Also was in the now defunct human television a few years back. And currently (sometimes) jamming with the ever more prolific genius kurt vile. now playing with psychedelia interlaced folky superstars slow country alongside fellow songwriter chase king and friends who play in/played in such bands as mercury program, bitchin, arch baddies, and flaming fire. now among other things putting together obscure CD-Rs with beats, a ton of reverb, etc and playing out in the New York City area - - -
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Boyd Shropshire grew up on a swath of eastern Florida land on the Atlantic known as the Space Coast. Since then he has been piecing together collages of sound from a seemingly bottomless well of psychedelic pop and noise-folk imagination. From the rolling waves to the tree canopy to the Astoria neighborhood he now calls home, Boyd is a bedroom nomad and he wants you to come inside. Preferring the relaxed atmosphere and intimacy of home-recording, he takes a clip art approach to songs that aren't afraid to splash color outside the lines. A bird chirp here, a bus there, wandering tape hiss and background murmur will coalesce with sounds from across the world into warm, hand-crafted compositions. His arrangements are the lake house love child of Townes Van Zandt and Peter Tosh, conceived in a bed of tasteful echo and analog reverb. And, like the aforementioned Texan, Boyd's songs are lyrically dense and cryptic at the same time, paintings of bare kitchens and dust motes floating in the sunlight. There is a traveler's sensibility to what the songs are trying to express, dissecting confusion, love and resolve while essentially hovering above the fray. There comes a point where the line between subject and object dissolves and his visions are now yours and you are wearing his headphones.
"Yes You Have" by Boyd, Aaron and Steve (Plus Zach)
Video by greg kletsel
