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God​-​like

by greenhouse

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1.
God-like 04:26
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Take a turn for the worse with an angel in my hand I should learn from this curse, but I will never understand, understand? Godlike is not pale and grey. Take my halo away. Catch the light from my head, it’s so easy to demand, What I am, is what you said, but I will never understand. It could be anybody else. Understand? It could be anybody else. Godlike not is pale and grey, So take my halo away. See how the mighty fall and leave no scars at all? Godlike is not pale and grey Take my halo away Godlike is not pale and grey So take my halo away Understand? It could be anybody else. If you understand, it could be anybody else. Godlike is not pale and grey, so take my halo away. Do you understand? It could be anybody else If you understand, it could be anybody else. We’re not godlike! We’re not godlike! We’re not bound to earth nor godlike.
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See Saw (Grant Smith memorial 2022 version) 05:45
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When the morning brings me round I find my conscience lying on the ground. But I don’t need this indecision You know I just don’t work that way And I can’t beat this situation I’m slipping away. If you see what I see how can you be up when I’m down? If you saw what I saw how can you be in the air when I’m on the ground? Explanation’s not my game. My behaviour’s always been the same. And I don’t like this elevation. You never promised it that way And it should be no revelation, Put me away. If you see what I see how can you be up when I’m down? If you saw what I saw how can you be in the air when I’m on the ground? If you see what I see how can you be up when I’m down? If you saw what I saw how can you be in the air when I’m on the ground?

about

Our drummer, Glen, died days before the state was sent into lockdown; just four weeks after we gathered in a converted church to demo songs for a long awaited (30 fkn yrs!) debut album. He had been ill but none of us, including him, really knew how seriously. We figured that we owed it to him to proceed and honour his wish of getting an album made and out there. The lock down meant no studio recording, no getting together to rehearse and write...a producer or engineer was out of the question too. what we had was my voice over studio and rudimentary recording skills...and the internet. I had to study and train, alone, to be both recording engineer and producer and get my little off grid studio in the wombat forest up to scratch to record a contemporary album. We also needed a drummer.
Guitars were recorded out doors with the amps cranked to their sweet spots and we got good tone...it would have been impossible in my tiny studio to achieve the energy we did. Our ears would still be ringing! Jonny would drop by surreptitiously on his wine delivery run so as not to run afoul of the authorities and lay down his guitar tracks and discuss approaches. Dean would record his bass parts at home in the city along to programmed drum tracks and then email them for me to lay into the sessions. We found a session drummer, Nik Hughes, who happened to also be locked down...in his home studio…in the US! He agreed to perform the drum parts I had programmed, and recorded the live drums… in Virginia. This was done for a totally reasonable fee and he would send me the individual stems. So in effect, we over-dubbed live drums onto the tracks. We just swapped out the programmed drums for the live tracks. We then found out that Nik’s is the current touring drummer with incredibly successful nineties band, Bush. Still touring internationally. Glen would have loved that.

I wasn't yet up to mixing the whole record but we put ourselves out there and sent our demo recordings to mixing 'god' Barny Barnicott ( Arctic Monkeys, Sam Fender, Kasabian, Coldplay) in the UK and he agreed to mix the album. FARK! We were totally stoked! There is no way that would have happened if the world wasn't in lockdown! ‘Barns’ was locked in his residential studio in Kent (Blue Bell Hill Studios )with no sessions possible. We got super lucky there. We went from a small digital studio in the wombat forest with a newb producer / engineer, to a major residential studio in the UK with 56 channels of SSL 6000 G analog console, all Rupert Neve ISA pre amps and processing to tape!! Yeah, I guess it is OK to dream big. Sometimes it comes true....but now it has to meet its audience, so back to reality, THUD!

'god-like' expresses a need to recognise fallibility before its too late... before you become a fool or a total arsehole. All too often the full-on rush of reckless youth or a position of power, carries us away from responsibilities and adequate care in our actions. The consequences can be immediate or they may haunt you for long time after. There is a lot of guilt and self deprecation in this tune... directed at myself, as if saying, "get over yourself dickhead, you're nothin"

credits

released October 2, 2022

God-like
Performed by greenhouse
Written by Robinson/Helmer
Recorded and Produced by Michael Ormond Robinson @ lille skov studios Mollongghip, Australia. Mixed by Barny Barnicott @ blue bell hill studios Kent UK. Mastered by Streaky Gee, London, UK.

see saw (grant smith memorial version)
Written by Robinson/Helmer
Arranged by Robinson/Helmer/Krivan
Produced by Michael Ormond Robinson
Recorded by Josh Barber at Barbershop Sounds, Mollongghip.
Mixed by Michael Ormond Robinson at Lille Skov studios, Mollongghip.
Mastered by Streaky Gee, Streaky Studios, London.

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