Ships by Water Music
Four weeks after the devastating suicide of my sister, I locked myself in my shed for four days and wrote and recorded these songs on my 8-track as both tribute and therapy. I've had death close to me before and here I was again. Anyway I went on a songwriting bender, shit just came pouring out of me and I was drinking and crying and smoking in the middle of the night while I was mixing it and in some songs the shed door is slamming because I forgot to lock it. Lo-fi...
I wanted the songs to tell the story of the two weeks between getting a phone call at work and letting go black helium balloons at the funeral. All the emotions that had gone through me and the people around me in those two weeks.
For Jodi.
Making this
was all I knew
it's an empty world
without you.
Tracklist
| 1. | Operator | 3:56 |
| 2. | Ships | 8:15 |
| 3. | Fool | 4:37 |
| 4. | Blue | 5:55 |
| 5. | Coraline | 4:03 |
| 6. | Loser | 4:33 |
| 7. | Wind | 5:56 |
| 8. | Balloons | 5:38 |
Credits
All songs by MJ Barker.
Written and recorded over four days in February 2015 in The Shed except Blue which was recorded in 2013 and once released under the name, Memo.
Cover photography by Leif Nash.
