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New song: The Grunge by Electric Armchair.

Out everywhere on June 24 2022.

Written, recorded, mixed, and produced in my home recording studio with layers of vocals, electric guitars, and electronic drums.

Inspired by Pixies, The Velvet Underground, My Chemical Romance, and Nirvana.

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The Grunge (Single Version) by Electric Armchair

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Poetry and art by @electricarmchair

The Rain Tie

The sky lost its rainbow

So he wore a rain tie

Thinking no one would notice

For his hopes were so high

Though he tied up his eyes

And his ears in his collar

He didn’t hear but in fact

The whole world did hollar

New set up! I got a myself a midi controller and have been practising live looping for a week now. Recording my first looping performance today with layers of my vocals, synthesizers, and drums. A new song I made for my mom on Mother’s Day, “Captain Obvious.” It’s reggae-inspired. The idea is to record a video of me playing each layer consecutively. Almost ready to start performing locally! Subscribe to my YouTube Artist’s Channel @ Electric Armchair so you don’t miss out!!

Trapezoid

Lyrics by April Salisbury-White @electricarmchair

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I’m so convexed

Pushed and pulled in every way

I almost don’t know what to say

Yet still I find some truth in words

If even not the answer

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Carry on until the puzzle pieces

Are all gone, and have to pick them up

On older ground to fully move along

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I don’t want to fight, but it’s a such an inner battle

With myself, I’m indecive and it makes me mad

That I can’t make my mind and spend that time

Just trying to unwind

And it gets so bad

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I’m a clutz

With dozens of projects going at once

And I stumble and fall to the rubble

And make new garden entirely

Damn the old shit - gotta burst that bubble

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Trapezoid, I know, To the void

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Ey - Into the void

This space is a trapezoid

I’m so convexed

2d in a 3d world

Annoyed

And it gets me stressed

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I’m so convexed, Must be a test

Got me a perplexed, I’m feeling stressed

Breezing through production on my fifth album Living Ghosts after shelving the project in September/ October due to some kinks that I had to iron out. Now that I know what I’m doing, it’s so much easier to achieve the sound I want for these songs. This album will be an alt rock album compared to my usual synthwave. I primarily used layers of vocals, electric guitars, and electronic drums for this album. I would have released the album when I wrote the songs a few years ago, but I couldn’t actually play most of the guitar parts I had written properly until now.

17 or 18 songs that I wrote from 2017 - 2021

Coming soon!

I recorded a video of me performing my top song Bad Habits with vocals and keyboard. I didn’t make a looping cover, not yet. I haven’t bought the synth I want yet. I know which one I want though.

I will post the video on Monday April 11 to my Official YouTube Artist’s Channel @ Electric Armchair.

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Bad Habits was the first full song I ever produced and released.

In September 2020, I started teaching myself music production and released a raw layered version of Bad Habits to YouTube. It gained over 5.1k views. In the same week I created Bad Habits, I also created the rest of The Electric Gradient album. I released the album with a better version of Bad Habits on my birthday in June 2021. Bad Habits is a song composed of my vocals, synthesizers, and electric guitars. There is a single version released a week before the album, which features electric guitar instead of synthesizer. It’s very interesting how different the song sounds when you switch out an instrument. The guitar version sounds like Spongebob SquarePants to me (which can be great because I love Ween.)

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If you don’t know Bad Habits, listen to the song on all streaming platforms, or watch the music video on YouTube! Compare with the original raw version also on YouTube. It might also be on IGTV.

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@electricarmchair @haikuprajna

Bad Habits

Listen to Bad Habits by Electric Armchair from the album The Electric Gradient (2021) on all streaming platforms.

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I have a bad habit

Of finishing sentences -

Minutes to hours,

After they’ve passed.

Days to weeks,

Weeks to months -

I’ll pick up the topic

Right from where I left off,

Like we never stepped off,

My mind tends to drift off.

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I have a tendency

To take on too many entities,

Stretching myself thin -

Too many somethings.

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I have a tendency

To take on too many entities,

Stretching myself thin -

Too many somethings.

(Kicking the habit)

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And I don’t want to brag

But these tools in my belt

Are weighing me down.

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I find my mind stirring old words,

Connecting the cords of a circuit

That’s long been forgotten.

I’ve picked up the topic,

Ive traced back each step to the start,

And where do we go from here?

We’re living on borrowed parts.

And where do we go from here?

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(Kicking the habit) (Kicking the habit) (Kicking the habit)

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And where do we go from here?

We’re living on borrowed parts.

And where do we go from here?

Closeup of an eye of a drawing that didn’t work out. It didn’t work out because it wasn’t supposed to be a self portrait and it’s definitely me. I was supposed to loosely follow a photo, not completely copy it!

Brain Stem

Lyrics by April Salisbury-White @electricarmchair

Listen to my original music albums by Electric Armchair on all streaming platforms

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I close my eyes but I can’t close my ears

I feel much safer when I’m close to fear

I’ve never been that much of a straight edge

Not a wallflower, more of a brain stem

Addicted to most obscure things

Got no radio to play my station

I run on a much different wavelength

Bent my antennae in the strangest way

Ears hear what they do not say

I’ve written my own rules to the game

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Hear no evil

I wish there was a switch

Looks so easy

As if there was a bridge

Dance with demons

Like I was a witch

Hollowed Sea

Lyrics by April Salisbury-White

@electricarmchair

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A hollowed sea

Had carried me

So far away

You won’t believe

Libre d'esprit

My spirit free

Un naufrage

A castaway

Some trickery

Was played on me

My body anchored

To the seabed

I lost my head

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In a mid sludge stance

In the smudge of land

With the flow of things settled

This is where I stand

On an isle in the hollowed sea

For a while this is where I’ll be

Listen to my album Feast Of Fools by Electric Armchair! Which song is your favourite?

Feast Of Fools by Electric Armchair

The Bloodshot Eye

Lyrics by April Salisbury-White

Electric Armchair @electricarmchair

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Bloodshot eye

Stared too long

The Cyber sun

Was much too strong

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Forced to quit

Closed eye lids

Digital self gone

For the moment

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Had to quit when I was almost there

Hit a hitch and I got a bloodshot eye

Looked like I was fucking high

Blame it on the blindspot, ah this damn left eye

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How to take it easy, I have never known

The quick road, took the long way home

I have a such a bad habit of trying to do

Everything on my own

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Keep it stupid simple - wait, that’s not right

My mouth doesn’t know whats on my mind

I’m two steps ahead, and part of me

Will always be two steps behind

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Reel it back, leave a bigger gap

Not as planned, curse the blindspot - fuck this shit

Got a headache, can’t make a lap

Take a break, need a big drug hit

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Take it easy

I don’t know how to live

Without attempting to record everything

That I do - got a drive to

Create before it slips out of view

Working on an angry explicit song about having a bloodshot eye while trying to produce music! I look bored in the photo but this was the best one - at least my eyes are both open! It’s the month of April and what better way to celebrate than to stream my album Electric Armchair’s Feast Of Fools on your favourite music platform!! Thanks for the support, new exciting stuff is coming soon!!

Feast Of Fools by Electric Armchair

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To be an April on April First
As a kid could be the very worst
The kids played tricks on me at school
And crowned me as their April Fool

I’ve seen so many tricks by now
I’m going to fool the world somehow
Next year will so far from the worst
To be an April on April First

Another Space Song @electricarmchair

An automatic drawing/ doodle from my sketchbook

Titled after a song by Failure

Janet, an automatic drawing/ doodle from my sketchbook.

Cosmic Vanity

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Automatic drawing/ doodle from my sketchbook

“Limelight” by April Salisbury-White

Drawing for an album cover. Not finished yet. It’s kind of a joke; I’ve been doing traditional illustrations but digitally coloured for my first four albums, and this one is completely techno but with a hand drawn cover art. Kind of misleading. It’s great. The techno album will hopefully be the sixth album I release, following the release of my fifth album Living Ghosts, the guitar one I’m currently working on.

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Artwork by April Salisbury-White

Message me for inquiries and projects.

Find my independent music albums on all streaming platforms.

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@electricarmchair@haikuprajna

Electric Armchair “Feast Of Fools” [4th Album]

(psychedelic) (experimental) (electronic)

Written/ Recorded/ Mixed/ Produced/ Illustrated in my home recording studio with layers of vocals, synthesizers, electric guitar, and electronic drums.

Themes of winter, adventure, perseverance, video games, science fiction, nature, anxiety, love and war.

Inspired by Bjork, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Beck, Brian Eno, Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, John Frusciante, and Ween.

Out now everywhere!

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Feast Of Fools by Electric Armchair

Janfebrumarchuary

The cruelest month of all

Is Janfebrumarchuary

When the snow melts, when you fall

On the ice if you’re not weary

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The month when airs too crisp

Too dry, your breath is but a wisp

Your eyes have tears, icicles

Frozen, just a vessel

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For the snow to pile up

You’re a snowman in the brawl

In Janfebrumarchuary

It’s the cruelest month of all

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When the snow melts

You’ll fall too

As you fade into the blue

Pillars, ice pelts

Melting tombs

And you’re slipping out of view

“Mistakes Made” by April Salisbury-White

@electricarmchair

It was a normal face until my hand slipped and the mouth went weird.

I hated the drawing, so I drew more detail. Still hated it so I coloured it and now I hate it less? The page is very shiny. It smells of Mr Sketch markers. Which suck. They’re only good for looking like a weird marker sniffer. I almost coloured a hole through the sketchbook.

Joe Bean on a shelf. With pillows my mother crocheted. He hates blankets!

Blackout Block

(or The Wicks And The Wax)

Unsettling has nestled in

The sound of a blackout’s deafening

The cat is moaning like a ghost

To the darkness cast in the home

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I’m wrestling with a tealight wick

Formed with a wax I found

So far away the city’s lit

Around our blackout bounds

My fourth independent album Electric Armchair’sFeast Of Fools drops everywhere on March 17th 2022 @ 11:11 am est.

Written, recorded, mixed, and produced in my home recording studio with layers of vocals, synthesizers, electric guitars, and electronic drums.

Inspired by Bjork, Beck, Gorillaz, Pixies, Ween, Queens of the Stone Age, Brian Eno, Danny Elfman, John Frusciante, John Carpenter, Electric Light Orchestra, and Slipknot.

With themes of winter, wonder, anxiety, ADHD, science fiction, nature, adventure, perseverance, love and war.

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Feast Of Fools by Electric Armchair

Star Gazer

We are star gazers

Phasing through light

We set our lasers bright

Stifle the night

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When it seems all the light is dry

Star gazers cast that spite aside

Spark the divide

Hope is a star that could never die

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Darkness confides

Don’t need weapons to shine

When you realize

That it’s all inside your mind

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Close your eyes

And you just might find

The star gazers

It’s a state of mind

You just need to try and you’ll see

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Go set the scene, don’t wait for me

To expect a change is insanity

You’ll only move if you do what you want to do

I only flew ‘cause I knew what I needed to prove

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Stars come and go, you never know what’s there

What’s what is somewhere else but here

You can’t trust your eyes, so ostrasized

The cosmic lies - stitches in time

Are compromised - The best disguise

Gotta trust the gut inside your mind

Cause the ties that bind are the keys that wind

The stars you keep beneath the tide