Dec 11, 2015 Probably my favourite song of yours. The vocals fit really well, and I couldn't tell at all that they were added onto the song instead of the other way around.
Dec 13, 2015 3. Interlude I (Mirror) | 4. Reflect Mirror was the first Interlude I produced for the album, and along with Reflect, it was originally intended for another project altogether: Just Breathe EP. Once that was scrapped, I wasn't sure either of these would ever see the light of day. I brought them into iTunes and added them to the album, messed with the tracklisting to see how they'd fit, and it ended up working quite well. Mirror helps set the tone for the story on the album, showing the struggle between the mother and father and gives you a little more insight into what's happening while not yet revealing the story ties. At the same time, Reflect acts as a balance with the production style/structure on the track vs the rest of the album, and helps to balance out the tone of the album by adding a slightly lighter touch to it all, while still being somewhat emotional. Originally I was going to write some lines and have a couple people record them for me, but I didn't have anyone to get them done so I ended up having to settle for a sample from a youtube video of a couple fighting. I think it turned out pretty well though for what I had to work with... I see Reflect as sort of a spiritual successor to Broken from The Coldest Winter, and in a way, Sweet Dreams. Another note: both of these were actually produced before Caught In The Rain, and they definitely helped shape the sound of everything else on the album. Spoiler @Squid @Source Act @captain awesome @threee @Loyalty @Hana bi @Sith Lord @Ozy @YaBoyTr @Jasmine @Pato @Skippy @Jakey @Translucent @Nori @emostar @visionnaire @azymv @Raziel @RobA7 @Sign Language @Bleed @Ordinary Joel @Zep @coldkick @Luke @Jet @LasiK @asvdawg @Mikey1990 @Meero @Radeem @Skippy @GMV @Young Sinatra @Creation @Koolo @mdemaz @Pretentious @MPURA @rapmusik @Michael Myers @rapmusik @Narsh @TrxggerShot @zipp39 @November23 @Victim @CreativeSXN @Feedback @Jehovah @Charlton01
Dec 13, 2015 I'm still very unsure of what my favorite from AS is. On TCW, I had a couple clear favorites, with Ice In Your Veins being the clear standout, but even then my favorite switches up often on it. Here... I just don't even know. Thanks fam
Dec 13, 2015 2nd half of the song is my favorite part too, along with the little build to it starting at 1:55
Dec 16, 2015 5. Inner Demons Originally, 'Inner Demons' was just intended to be released without vocals as a halloween themed release in October. The track went from that to a last minute addition to the album, one that turned out quite well in my opinion, and for a lot of people ended up being a big highlight from the album. This resulted in me putting much more work went into it than I had anticipated with it's original concept. I decided to take a risk featuring my own vocals on a track for the very first time. I settled on a verse in a sort of spoken word form, entirely written by me (another first for my songs). I also put a rush on polishing the production to match the caliber of everything else on the album, since the rest of the tracks on AS had literal months more time to be worked on, but the end result fit perfectly with the story and production on the album in my opinion. Spoiler: lyrics INNER DEMONS If I do this I know I'm gonna lose my family. I have got to find another way. But you know you need the money. And you're already losing them anyway. It's not possible, I can't pull it off. I'm gonna get f---ing caught! But if you do nothing then they're lost. And to the streets you're tossed. I can't just do something like this. It doesn't f---ing matter the situation. Deep down you know your family needs this. They've already lost their patience. They'll stand by me, and I'll still raise Autumn. There's no way we need it this bad. Really? And if you don't fix the problem? She'll take her away, she won't have a dad. Even if I managed it, I don't think I could live with myself. How could I bare to? f--- the consequences! What about the wealth? And don't f---ing think, just do! This isn't gonna go down right! Innocent people are gonna get hurt! f--- them, you need this night. Do you even care? What's your family really worth? INNER DEMONS I guess it's settled then... The story on the track should be mostly obvious, the father is having a battle with himself, over whether or not to commit a crime that could ultimately save his family from the problems they're facing. He argues with his inner demons, and he gives in by the end of the track. One thing I tried to do with the lyrics here, was sort of omit the precise details of the crime as to preserve some sort of surprise in the story for 'Hailfire', especially as this would be released before the album. Spoiler: mentions @Squid @Source Act @captain awesome @threee @Loyalty @Hana bi @Sith Lord @Ozy @YaBoyTr @Jasmine @Pato @Skippy @Jakey @Translucent @Nori @emostar @visionnaire @azymv @Raziel @RobA7 @Sign Language @Bleed @Ordinary Joel @Zep @coldkick @Luke @Jet @LasiK @asvdawg @Mikey1990 @Meero @Radeem @Skippy @GMV @Young Sinatra @Creation @Koolo @mdemaz @Pretentious @MPURA @rapmusik @Michael Myers @rapmusik @Narsh @TrxggerShot @zipp39 @November23 @Victim @CreativeSXN @Feedback @Jehovah @Charlton01
Dec 16, 2015 I re-listened to the whole project last night.. just an amazing piece of art. Inner Demons is probably my favorite track still; next to Caught in The Rain
Dec 16, 2015 6. Hailfire | 7. Interlude II (Tragedy) The first half of the track was actually produced with the intention of it being used for The SXN80 Tape. Shortly after producing the first half of the song, I'd been listening to a lot of Purity Ring's new album, specifically the track 'Begin Again', as well as Nero's latest single 'Between II Worlds'. Both of those heavily inspired the 2nd half of the song with the wild high pitched synths on the drop, and the string outro. However, after producing another beat for the project I decided to scrap 'Hailfire' and set it aside completely. It was a month or two later when I finally picked the track back up with the idea in mind for it to fit on 'Autumn Storm'. From the moment I had the story done up to the point of working it into the tracklist, I knew it was one of my favorites from the album, and the turning point for it where everything begins to hit the fan and you get a better idea of what the album is about. Who crashed, why it happened, the robbery at the bank, the car chase etc. I saved a few important things for the final tracks though. Once the track was done, there was still some time between me finishing it up and working out the connecting Interlude 'Tragedy', due to problems finding desirable samples to use for either. I ended up digging around online for a ton of different gunshot samples and added them to the beat and dug some more to find what I needed for the transition between the two tracks like the car chase (though I had most of those resources from 'Caught In The Rain' still). I also took a ton of audio from News reports for Tragedy and chopped it all up to fit the story, as well as a sample from a bank robbery in a movie for the 'Everybody down!'. A couple side notes: There's a little easter egg here that I put in for anyone who's given a thorough listen to 'The Coldest Winter', in the form of the track playing in parts of the car chase on the radio. It's 'Silent / The Chase'. There's also a cut story thread that slipped into the audio because I was lazy/forgot to fix it before release. Originally, there was to be a friend of the father involved in the bank robbery. He needed it to pay back a dealer who was going to have him killed if he couldn't cough up the dough he owed him. It's mentioned in 'Tragedy' where it says "A gunman was also killed". It was suppose to add some more irony to all of it, but it felt tacked on in the end and I didn't have the resources to work it into the story properly so I scrapped the idea. Spoiler: mentions @Squid @Source Act @captain awesome @threee @Loyalty @Hana bi @Sith Lord @Ozy @YaBoyTr @Jasmine @Pato @Skippy @Jakey @Translucent @Nori @emostar @visionnaire @azymv @Raziel @RobA7 @Sign Language @Bleed @Ordinary Joel @Zep @coldkick @Luke @Jet @LasiK @asvdawg @Mikey1990 @Meero @Radeem @Skippy @GMV @Young Sinatra @Creation @Koolo @mdemaz @Pretentious @MPURA @rapmusik @Michael Myers @rapmusik @Narsh @TrxggerShot @zipp39 @November23 @Victim @CreativeSXN @Feedback @Jehovah @Charlton01
Dec 18, 2015 8. Downpour From it's very inception, this track was meant to do one thing: put all of the pieces back together for the listener, and give them something close to the full picture of the tragic story on the album. Realized through the audio samples/recorded lines from @Jasmine, you're able to finally know what's up with the whole car crash part of things. The father, in his rather flawed attempt at setting things right financially, and in an effort to win back his wife, ends up killing his daughter Autumn when he collides into the mothers car while she's out driving in the storm. He (obviously) goes to jail, and this leaves the mother all alone. Originally, I was to have @Purspective rap over this track as well as others to bring this story to life, but I ended up simply reworking the production and adding more samples/lines to make it all work. I think it's actually better this way (not that Purspective wouldn't have delivered), since it forced me to add a lot of extra production and polish to things and learn to build the scenes more with my production alone. By the way, I'm pretty sure my mentions failed for the previous entry, so scroll up if you missed Hailfire and Tragedy. Spoiler: mentions @Squid @Source Act @captain awesome @threee @Loyalty @Hana bi @Sith Lord @Ozy @YaBoyTr @Jasmine @Pato @Skippy @Jakey @Translucent @Nori @emostar @visionnaire @azymv @Raziel @RobA7 @Sign Language @Bleed @Ordinary Joel @Zep @coldkick @Luke @Jet @LasiK @asvdawg @Mikey1990 @Meero @Radeem @Skippy @GMV @Young Sinatra @Creation @Koolo @mdemaz @Pretentious @MPURA @rapmusik @Michael Myers @rapmusik @Narsh @TrxggerShot @zipp39 @November23 @Victim @CreativeSXN @Feedback @Jehovah @Charlton01
