First Terminus by Tyler Key
The whole thing was recorded on an 8-track Fostex recorder, with the exception of "That Ain't Me," which was recorded in a very amateurish manner on the 'puter via Cubase.
These are songs I wrote from 2011-2014 that I recorded myself and released to my friends mostly in order to get their money and therefore be able to eat. I don't know about you, but back then I was very broke, working maybe 20 hours a week (at a bank no less), and desperately wanted to be someone else. I played a lot of gigs and wrote a lot of songs. I had some expensive habits back then, one of which was taking photos of strangers on film. They call it 'street photography' but I wasn't too keen for the streets of downtown Athens Ga. So the album cover I shot on Indian Creek Rd., right down the way from my parents' house, while I was in the process of moving. I'm making this available because I feel like there's value in juvenalia and also I wouldn't mind random money. If you dig it, chip in. That's how we get to eat lunch.
Tracklist
| 1. | Handmedown Persuasions | 4:32 |
| 2. | The Devil You Know | 2:57 |
| 3. | Annalies | 3:33 |
| 4. | She Will Surely Break Your Heart | 4:19 |
| 5. | Walking Tightropes | 3:57 |
| 6. | Zelda Fitzgerald | 2:35 |
| 7. | Last Supper | 4:54 |
| 8. | Ain't No Such Thing | 3:51 |
| 9. | That Ain't Me | 5:53 |
| 10. | Going to Texas | 3:57 |
| 11. | Willowbrook (Only One More) | 5:25 |
Credits
Tyler Key plays all the instruments and sings all the vocals except for the following:
The Unknown Soldier plays "very human" slide guitar on tracks 2 and 11
Billy Bindlestick plays banjo on tracks 3, 8, 10 and the bonus tracks
A Stranger who looks a lot like Geraldo Rivera plays drums on tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, AND ESPECIALLY 9 HE WAS ON IT
Freddy (The Monkey) plays the harmonium on track 10. He wore yellow overalls during the session.
Somebody played a weird doubled violin on track 6 but I don't remember him or her, just the look in that person's eyes when he or she broke the violin by throwing it into the same river where Deliverance was filmed. Man, those eyes.
