Up Real Late

by tomtom

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Before I was writing band music I was super influenced by producers like Madlib, J Dilla, MF DOOM, SAMIYAM and many others. So when I can't get together with my band I like to write stuff which is more like beat music, somewhere between a song and a beat.

This beat felt a bit like a night time mood and made me think of those soft, seemingly endless evenings you spend with a good friend just talking as if you could never run out of things to say and funny little moments that happen over the course of the night.

I wrote this song in Ableton Live 10, starting with the lead guitar loop and going from there. I think I had the whole beat written before I added the vocals, but it all happened it one session. I am particularly proud of the way I effected the background vocals, to be a sort of rising and falling background movement, representing the rising and falling energy in a good conversation, talking faster when you get excited and leaving bigger pauses as you both reflect on whats been said, trying to gather your thoughts for what you're about to say.

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All she wanna do is stay up real late
smoking cigarettes talk about the music she hate

And the books she like and the boys she dated
might talk all night if the mood just stays just right

just like that time when by the phone light
we were looking for the steps of our own home like

where the hell are these steps and the moon hit your eye
and the world just turn made my baby girl cry
(x3)

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released May 7, 2021

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tomtom Brisbane, Australia

Alt-Rock crooner with a heart full of sunshine.

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