Our Tales
EP Details
- Genre: Electronic, Experimental
- Length: 20:05
- Released: May 22, 2024
Our Tales
The third EP released by Saint Nowhere. We oughta' lift up our voices together and pray that they'll give a damn about our rambling for once.
Download this release as MP3s by going to the link here or by clicking the image to the right of this description. If you want WAV copies of the tracks however, you'll have to go to my Bandcamp page instead.
Tracklist
- Her Apprehension [00:31]
- Their Preparations [01:49]
- His Bitchin' [01:17]
- Xyr Mantra [02:10]
- Its Rambling [04:03]
- Vis Auguries [02:18]
- Eir Chatterbox [03:06]
- Hir Groove [01:33]
- Aer Nostalgia [03:13]
Links
Listed are additional websites you can check out this EP on, whether for free listening or for a pay-what-you-want purchase.
Trivia
This one focuses on nine random characters, with their personalities shown through each of their respective songs. Every single title of said songs also is done in the format of (Pronoun) (Verb) in regards to what each character is doing. The pronoun part is important because I wanted to make a work that represented neopronouns, since you don't really see them much in folks creations these days and they ought' to get more of a spotlight really!
Cover art for Our Tales shows Saint Nowhere done up in a polygonal, low-detail, and fragmented style sort of portrait with a fancy picture frame around her. The idea was her being fragmented just like the fragments of unnamed characters we hear throughout the EP.
The opening track, Her Apprehension, is basically a way of telling the listener that I'm nervous as hell to be finally putting out a release with my own vocals but that I'm going to power through it and do it anyway. A taste of what's to come while also psyching myself up for the rest of the EP.
Its Rambling is basically me reflecting on time spent in downtown Chicago during my youth, a bit of nostalgia of showing love to the city I came from (despite having to have left it in 2018 for my own safety). Even if I never return to it someday, the track's a great way to go down memory lane!
Eir Chatterbox very much is inspired by the radio DJ heard throughout the canceled video game Silent Hills - in the sense of the way I talk and it being sort of background audio to the loop in general (whether the game's literal looping or the loop I made for the track itself).
Hir Groove is me VERY loosely channeling the vocals and vibes Firestarter by the Prodigy. Couldn't get it out my head the entire time I was working on my own track.
Aer Nostalgia basically is me vaguely calling back to my first album, Rêve Concret, by using a handful of looped beats from it. This bit calling back and reflecting is also why there's a filter over the loops in this track itself, as if one was listening to an old song on an even older radio. Finally, saying 'gotta let it die' is basically telling myself to move on from doing just instrumental-only / vocal-less instrumental-heavy stuff best I can.