d204 is a project where i take a list of eighty songs that i wrote & record whichever one comes up when i roll a d20 & a d4

the song

a closed door
a covered window
a bare mattress smelling of stale sweat
a scribbled inventory of bad things
heart-racing events & some frights that haven’t happened yet

the vlog

It is ultimately, like, I think, an expression of desperation. It’s like, begging the universe for help, right? And probably also a little bit of a sense of like, “I’m so desperate that I wish this was something I believed so that I could believe help was coming”.’

additional thoughts

here’s the version from that november 2016 EP:

it has its charms. it’s definitely a little out of tune & rhythmically janky at parts, but that’s not so bad for a song like this. for the new one, i had a lot of fun adding harmonies to & making the piano a bit more interesting. i’m not sure if this is one where i felt like i wanted it to be vocally bare bones on purpose at the time & i’ve just forgotten that with some space & time, but… i think it adds, rather than diminishes