Villainy - Acoustic Reboot

To listen, follow the link: http://soundcloud.com/antony-mores/villainy

Over the course of the last few years I've written a lot of music that focused on relationships, politics, and inner-turmoil. The last ten years have been fraught with both elation and sorrow, and music is a conduit of health for me. It's a way of being able to say what I otherwise wouldn't be able to through words. The catharsis of writing music and learning how to express the things which words can never fully relate is definitely it's own reward. It's a way of allowing one's self to walk out into the world completely naked, humbly revealed, without having to worry about the double standards of ideologies or the burdens of an intimate context. The music itself supplies it's own in this manner. Every now and then, however, something comes through the grand third eye of musical composition that goes beyond what normally manifests in an average session. It was during one of these (extra-ordinary) sessions where I crafted the song Villainy. A self-imposed walk through some of the things I didn't like about myself and my personality. This song contained things I had both noticed and things that had been brought to my attention over the past decade, and while I'm committed to the betterment of self I also have to be cognizant of the fact that I live in a world that has taught me how to live in a deep state of denial.

The process I use to write is very personal to me, I don't use a big studio with all the refinements (not that there's anything wrong with that). I find that a smaller intimate setting is more akin to my creative process. The same goes for my style of playing, as my guitar is generally tuned to lend itself to the lyrical composition, that is to say, the lyrics are generally the first thought with everything else coming after that. This is where you'll see my style represented by the term "anti-folk" given the attention paid to the vocals and lyrics. The reason I preface this song with a little more insight is that I believe it captures the essence of the sound I wish to strive for every time my finger meet the chords.

So I hope you enjoy this latest effort and feel free to check out my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/antonymores