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Andrew Lardie

i know you are, but what am i?

About Me

You can buy 'a bunch of demos' at CDbaby. Holy moley!
First you will hear an acoustic guitar. You'll hear several, but of course that's just overdubbing- it's really just one. Then you'll hear this voice where this guy's trying to talk, but also be singing. So most of the notes are there but it isn't super pretty like 'aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Sometimes you'll hear a piano, or a keyboard that might be trying to sound like a piano or trying to sound like a bass guitar. Or some drums, or fake drums, which sometimes sound pretty realistic. There's that accordion on that one song too. That's awesome.
And then it's just the same voice singing all these different parts but the different parts only come in at certain parts of the songs. Sometimes it's really boring for most of the song but then the other singing parts come in at the end. It kind of varies. Oh wait, and a couple times there are other voice too, which is nice.
But the lyrics are kinda wierd though. Like sometimes it's like about feelings and it seems sad, but then the music is all fast like it's happy. Or maybe there will be a funny song and then it gets sad for only a part of it where it sounds different. But even then it's like is it sad sad, or like joking sad? But usually you can tell. And he puts in all this big words some times like just to make you go look at a dictionary or something. But usually the words do rhyme which I think is important in a song. If there's a song and the words don't rhyme it's like what was that person even thinking? That's a poem and somebody made up music and you just stuck them together. But these songs rhyme, most of them do, so you know they're good.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/10/2006
Band Website: andrewlardie.com
Band Members: I usually play all by my lonesome, but on these recordings you can hear some of my friends: Rob Fishel on piano, Chris Hubbard on keyboard, and Will Hattman on drums. See blog post for more friends on latest songs.
Sounds Like: Lobster Pot, Ben Folds, Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, Violent Femmes, Kermit the Frog, The Shins, Counting Crows, old Weezer, The Decemberists
Record Label: BFOGN
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Non-EP tracks for download on SNOCAP store

So I really wanted to be able to get Halloween on iTunes in time for Halloween but it wasn't possible without a lot of headache.  Happily I was able to add it to my SNOCAP store here on MySpace a...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:46:00 PST

New songs

it's certainly been awhile.  Now that summer is here I have time to dive into recording some recent songs.  Hopefully i'll be playing out too.  actually i am slated for the op...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:11:00 PST

yay, my first review! It's.... less than tepid

* the post below is sort of silly and embarrassing.  i got this review and it was just so-so. i went all sensitive and wrote this whiny blog post.  ho hum.  read on if you dare... * &nb...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:57:00 PST

glacial progress - ssscrrrraaaaaapppee!

Well well!  I have news. First, you can now purchase 'a bunch of demos' at cdbaby.com.  No more dealing with ornary, unreliable me!  No more $3 (now it costs more...)! Second,...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:02:00 PST

new song, "Song For Girls" - limited time only

I made up this song last Thursday with some of my students when I was subbing in a chorus class.  One of them was playing some mean piano with me at the time, but sadly I was unable to get her on...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Wed, 31 May 2006 08:12:00 PST

new songs added

Check out the two new tracks I posted today.  'Free T-shirt' is one with a lot of yelling.  'Essin' features some really fake-sounding drums, but also mad accordion, courtesy of Ro...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Sat, 13 May 2006 03:22:00 PST

demo cd available now

FYI I am presently producing copies of a 7 song demo cd. Rest assured that I've put in a ton of work to get a final product that I can be pretty proud of. If I've been subjecting you to my music for a...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:14:00 PST

Revisions

Just replaced 2 of the mp3's on my profile with friendlier mixes of the same songs.  So if you downloaded the first or last song before, you'd be better off replacing it with the new one....
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:00:00 PST

Here we go.

Seeing as I've just recently established this little site, I just want to invite feeback from anyone who happens upon it and chooses to listen. Also, I think I will use this space to initiate some ...
Posted by Andrew Lardie on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:05:00 PST