Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars, released in 2004. 03-04 is when I really started getting into “Indie” music; and when a lot of songs I now consider classics of sorts, were created. The original finds Stars doing the best of what they do; love-torn heart-on-sleeve indie ballads. Since the original is also a duet, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to enlist the help of my very talented friend Julia Mecham. She’s a great singer and guitarist and songwriter, and she has a better ear for some of this stuff than I do, this track wouldn’t sound half as good without her input. Really, I tried to pass off things half as good. Oh and she came up with that great impromptu hook in the last section. Anyway it was fun recording with her and I’ve learned quite a bit on this song, so my objectives are being met.
Thanks again Julia for indulging me on this project!
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Julia – Vocals, Organ, drums (before I ruined that sound file) and many other things we ended up not using.
Ryan – Vocals, guitar, mixing etc.
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they’re speechless, folks. the masses know not what to say. our performance is awe-fully good.
julia
February 6, 2010 at 12:24 am
Ha! well, as it goes “When you can’t say something nice…”
Ryan
February 6, 2010 at 12:50 pm
OH! Keep ‘em coming! Beautiful voice Julia. You guys sounded great! I so can’t wait for the album to be released! :)
Daina
February 8, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I stumbled upon your blog here. Great cover of a wonderful Stars song. Your voices blend well. The Stars were one of my early indie interests as well.
Devin Healey
July 20, 2010 at 2:00 pm