This is a song I wrote back in 2021 with my previous band before it passed away in early 2023.

There's also this version I recorded much earlier posted on soundcloud:

The mix is awful but I sort of dig it as well.

I made the new recording with a guy called Gonzalo Barcos who took over some of the production and all of the mixing (thank god). I made it mostly to live through the experience of recording and puting out in a more polished way than my previous works.

I posted it under my old band's name )since it was a song I wrote during that time) and didn't do much in the aspect of promotion or anything.

My girlfriend recorded the video and I edited it making it look like shit which is work I am honestly proud of.

For years I had been (and still am) obsessed with the idea of releasing an album. One afternoon which I can't even begin to remember, during the year 2022, it occurred to me to gather a bunch of songs and demos I had recorded on my phone and just get them together as an album of sorts, that became 'shitbits&demos'.

The 'shitbits' were an experiment/exercise I put upon myself during a period of time. It consisted in writing a song everyday, not caring much about the quality of the end result. I didn't do it for that long (there probably must have been around 5 or 6 'shitbits') , but some of them I grew quite fond of. Despite it not being a proper LP, since I didn't do the full 'album' run (or even told anybody I was putting this out), it was a fun experience. Putting all these songs together gave me an extremely sincere pleasure.

Listening to it now, a good while after I put it together, it's rough. I have my second, third, and fourth thoughts about how I'd do most songs nowadays. But I'm happy it's out there

Particularly, I recommend 'If I Could Ask for A Miracle', 'Myths', 'A Special Kind of Suffering', and 'I'm Calling it Quits'.

Check them out if you want to.

Also! I was forgetting this: there were initially like 16 songs that were gonna be on this album, but, since I had some of them uploaded to the cloud, I downloaded them to publish them on soundcloud, but since the platform encountered that I had downloaded those tracks it couldn't check that they were actually my songs, so I was forced to cut them off. To this day I don't remember which were those songs, and I doubt I have copies of them anywhere. Just a little bit of personal lost media I guess.

A bit of an emotional one here.

We formed this band with a couple of friends of mine when we were around 16-17, we barely knew what a music instrument was, let alone how to play them simulatenously and have them sound good.

We would play mostly Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes covers, and we took them as big influences for what we seemed to want to do with music.

I skipped so many uni classes to go rehearse I think some professors never got to see my face. It made me happy. I was the only one who lived far away from where we used to rehearse, so I had a pretty long trip there. My father would sometimes reluctanlty agree to take me by car but on other ocassions I just rather avoid the hassle that represented and go by myself. The way back home was always a mess since I would either leave my gear on our rehearsal space (something I never really liked to do because I was unable to use it back at home, and also became a problem when we started rehearsing less and less), or else convince my father to pick me up and go three floors down stairs carrying guitar, amp , pedals, cables, microphones and stands in the midst of an anxiety attack since for some fucking reason he would get mad if I made him wait even a couple minutes. But that ride home always felt so good. I felt accomplished (even though we hardly did anything productive) it felt like a dream in the making.

Not to bore you for much long, as I said, we started rehearsing less and less, eventually we got our drummer out of the band and got together a few more times before the pandemic hit in 2020.

During that period of time I wrote 'Corrossion', a heavily Arctic Monkeys inspired tune that I can now see as not good, but representative of where I was at the time.

Recenlty my old pc had died and I got to use this 2011 iMac my brother had abandoned and got the demo recorded on GarageBand.

Our friends had insisted so much that we release a song that it was almost hilarious how little it mattered when we put it out. It was screened on discord for the whole two minutes and never spoken about again.

Our guitarist and a dear friend of mine had a large following on twitter and shared it there getting a bunch of people to watch it. Most of them left really positive messages but I couldn't help but notice the ones pointing out how my voice sucked.

I felt alone and exposed and grew feeling weird about the whole thing.

A couple of recordings followed soon, 'Unsolicited Interference' is straight up shit and I don't delete it just because I feel it would be wrong, but I advice everybody not to hear it. 'Sweet Thing' is rather ok. The mixes on all of them are terrible though. I was grasping to the word demo as a lifesaver.

Anyways, if you get anything from this let it be: support your friends wholeheartedly, or get out of the way please.