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Artist: Joe Forde
Release Format: E.P./Demo/Digital
Genre: Folk Rock, Indie Rock
Label: Unreleased
Length: 7:35
Producer: Kyle Lange
Recorded: November 2013 - December 2013 Linear Notes: “What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Palooka was an Extended Play by Joe Forde’s band Shangri-La Hentai. Now he's releasing via his birthname. It is his first foray into recorded music after a stint with multiple live bands in his hometown of St. Paul Minnesota. Themes and subject matters in this 3 song cycle range from a number of sources.
Palooka is also a publicly released demo, so to speak, and his attempt to get signed by a label.
Following the death of his wife, Joe Ford was a member of multiple North Dakota punk rock bands, and his connections built during those days have helped him forge this new album.
“It has been a long, long time since I’ve recorded anything, and to be able to record these songs for public consumption is more than therapeutic, it’s fulfilling. The inspirations behind this EP are so many that I could release a compilation of songs that were on my mind while I was writing these songs. Each song follows a sort of story structure, and I would call this very far from a concept release, but each song does have a concept behind it and I hope that anyone who’s willing to look for such a thing finds themselves rewarded in a satisfactory manner.”
- Joseph Forde |
I feel numb, born with a weak heart
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 1.) Autumn’s Falling on Us
Length: 2:38 Linear Notes: “Autumn’s Falling on Us is the track I chose to open Palooka, and one I wrote with the past in mind. It’s a really simple song -haha-, can I say that in my own linear notes? Well anyway, it follows a very simple chord progression, but I think the story it tells should be something that people can take away from it. It’s about a guy who’s coming back to his hometown after years of being away, and now that he’s back with this new woman in his life, he’s got these great expectations of how life is going to go and how people will accept him. The songs after this really act as a response to that, but I guess you could also say this stands for my return to music, and how I feel about it.”This is one of the two songs of Palooka that utilizes electric guitar, and as Forde states in the linear notes, the chord progression is very simplistic. Lyrics:Springs’ shadow looms overhead
But that’s never stopped us
There’ll be dancing
There’ll be friends
No shouting nor fuss
Cuz we’re home from the trenches
The war of Summer is officially over
The bad times are behind us
We’ll drink our drinks
And party into October
Autumn’s falling
Autumn’s falling
Autumn’s falling on us
And the trees will wilt
The leaves are graying
My town smells of decay
The lush brown is on display
And the prelude is set
For the leaves to fall away
Our friends missed us
So say the drunken banter
And we’re wild and unruly
So that when we go out
We’ll all scream and shout
Autumn’s falling
Autumn’s falling
Autumn’s falling on us
And the trees will wilt
Autumn’s falling
Autumn’s falling
Autumn’s falling on us
And the trees will wilt
And the trees will wilt
And we’ll stay
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