This is my second foray into recording music as a solo artist.
My solo stuff is instrumental, and if you like bands like Sigur Rós then you'll probably enjoy it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mchdzk - 5mb. :)

File's not up anymore, mind uploading it again? If you can live with the filename being turned into mush, http://xnr.be/ works well for anything under 10 MB.

Okay done.

http://files.xnr.be/3a66fd10d3fc96e81393ff37810e5aa9.mp3

Anybody willing to give it a listen this time?

It's only two minutes long.

I did give it a listen.
It's... interesting. :p

Alright now that I'm not listening to music through one broken earbud anymore:

I actually like it, but I don't know if it's the kind of thing I would go back to a lot - it seems too densely layered at the beginning, almost cacophonous in the beginning, it seems to have 3 things going on, they all sound really nice when I focus on one but they don't seem to go together terrifically. But retreating back to the background strumming (which I like). From that point on I really like the combination of instruments, which I think is 2/3rds of the beginning. The keyboard or whichever the second instrument is starts off really strong, hits a bizarre note and then seems to go nowhere while fading out.

I would take all of this with a grain of salt seeing as it's way better than my jeskola buzz/fruityloops clicks and beeps, and I really do like what you have now. If you can try to make your songs somewhat longer, you might have less of an inclination to layer so densely right off and have more of a buildup. But like I said I have no real idea how to make music, especially stuff that's not really computery.

I'm sorry I didn't really pay attention to your music threads in the past, but if you'd like to post more Silent Alarm stuff I would like to listen to it and I'll try to offer what little advice I can.

Alright now that I'm not listening to music through one broken earbud anymore:

I actually like it, but I don't know if it's the kind of thing I would go back to a lot - it seems too densely layered at the beginning, almost cacophonous in the beginning, it seems to have 3 things going on, they all sound really nice when I focus on one but they don't seem to go together terrifically. But retreating back to the background strumming (which I like). From that point on I really like the combination of instruments, which I think is 2/3rds of the beginning. The keyboard or whichever the second instrument is starts off really strong, hits a bizarre note and then seems to go nowhere while fading out.

I would take all of this with a grain of salt seeing as it's way better than my jeskola buzz/fruityloops clicks and beeps, and I really do like what you have now. If you can try to make your songs somewhat longer, you might have less of an inclination to layer so densely right off and have more of a buildup. But like I said I have no real idea how to make music, especially stuff that's not really computery.

I'm sorry I didn't really pay attention to your music threads in the past, but if you'd like to post more Silent Alarm stuff I would like to listen to it and I'll try to offer what little advice I can.

Cheers for your input. :)

I agree with the start, it is pretty dissonant, I can't quite remember what I was trying to achive XD. I wanted to make it pretty weird at the start so that it became more melodious as it went on. The reason for the dissonance is probably because it's about three layers of guitar, coupled with the violins from my piano. Problematically, when I wrote the violins, I couldn't actually listen to whatever else was going on in the song, cos I was recording it with my MP3 microphone. So it really was hit or miss.

I've written another composition. Well, I wrote it before Lost At Sea, it's called Coral Dream Phase. But I don't know if it's anygood, I think it's about 10 minutes long. It's very Floydy. I might post it sometime :D