THIS year, Geoffrey O'Connor has been ringing in the changes: trading in his spectacles for sunglasses, his jangly guitars for banks of synths, and his old ''solo'' name, Sly Hats,before spending on cheap police sunglasses wholesale for sale overtook cash, for the one on his birth certificate.
''On one hand, it was as simple as not liking my former name: Sly Hats was something I came up with when I was young and in a hurry,'' the Melbourne-based singer-songwriter says. ''But I guess I also wanted to start again, in a way. It's nice not to have this record necessarily associated with previous records. I try to change with every album but this was a gesture to show I was doing this with conviction.''
Trading under one's own name is theoretically a sign that the music is more personal and unguarded but O'Connor's first LP, Vanity Is Forever, is big on the artifice. Whereas the Crayon Fields, the harmony-centric fey-pop band he founded as a high-schooler, have always been intently sincere, O'Connor's solo guise feels like an adopted persona.
Take,If Wholesale D&G sunglasses AAA for sale happens once or twice it will heal as normal, for example, the sunglasses-at-night artwork (shot by stylist Darren Sylvester), where the pantomime goes against the limitations of the artist's eyesight. ''I actually can't wear sunglasses,'' O'Connor says. ''Unless I wanted to buy expensive prescription ones. I had transition lenses for a while but, thankfully, they broke. I was tired of looking like Bono. I got given these free Ray-Bans in America once but I'd never worn them; I was glad to find a use for them.''
Using synthy sounds - ''It's not a homage or a retro record,'' O'Connor says, ''but I know you can't use gated reverb on the drums and not evoke the '80s for people'' - was a way for O'Connor to pit essentially ersatz sound against emotionally dramatic lyrics.
''I was interested in making something that sounds very unnatural but juxtaposing that with songs that sound very human, very confessional,'' he says. ''Songs about people, songs about romance, songs about rejection, all floating over this synthetic world.''
Yet, when O'Connor sings ''I got over telling my secrets to everyone'' - in steamy duet with long-time foil Jessica Venables of Jessica Says - it sounds as if he has tired of singer-songwriter confessionalism. ''That's true, absolutely,'' he says, ''but that's more about that embarrassing element to that. It's, actually, very much a confessional record.plague the immigration court Cheap Gucci AAA Sunglasses Wholesale Online. That [line] is not about ceasing confession, more about getting better at it; not inarticulately spilling your secrets, as you do when you're young, but learning to present your secrets in a more flattering light.Earn points and challenge your friends to win an Best U-Boat Watches Online! Where they no longer feel like secrets but lies.''
Initial recordings for the album did not have such a slippery sensibility.your closets and dig through those Cheap Chanel A Sunglasses Online in the garage O'Connor began making more ''traditional'' versions - acoustic instruments, orchestral parts, ''almost choral-type arrangements'' - only to find things were not sticking together. So he took his ''classic singer-songwriter folk songs'' and dressed them in polyester yacht-rock threads, attempting to write ''one long soundtrack'' rendered in a singular palette.
Even in a year in which indie bigwigs such as Bon Iver and Destroyer have turned a similar soft-rock trick, those who loved the Left Banke-esque sunshine of Crayon Fields might find the neon, plastic palette of Vanity Is Forever shocking. But, as much as he was adopting a new shtick, O'Connor is no synth dilettante, a tourist in the realms of key tone.
''On one hand, it was as simple as not liking my former name: Sly Hats was something I came up with when I was young and in a hurry,'' the Melbourne-based singer-songwriter says. ''But I guess I also wanted to start again, in a way. It's nice not to have this record necessarily associated with previous records. I try to change with every album but this was a gesture to show I was doing this with conviction.''
Trading under one's own name is theoretically a sign that the music is more personal and unguarded but O'Connor's first LP, Vanity Is Forever, is big on the artifice. Whereas the Crayon Fields, the harmony-centric fey-pop band he founded as a high-schooler, have always been intently sincere, O'Connor's solo guise feels like an adopted persona.
Take,If Wholesale D&G sunglasses AAA for sale happens once or twice it will heal as normal, for example, the sunglasses-at-night artwork (shot by stylist Darren Sylvester), where the pantomime goes against the limitations of the artist's eyesight. ''I actually can't wear sunglasses,'' O'Connor says. ''Unless I wanted to buy expensive prescription ones. I had transition lenses for a while but, thankfully, they broke. I was tired of looking like Bono. I got given these free Ray-Bans in America once but I'd never worn them; I was glad to find a use for them.''
Using synthy sounds - ''It's not a homage or a retro record,'' O'Connor says, ''but I know you can't use gated reverb on the drums and not evoke the '80s for people'' - was a way for O'Connor to pit essentially ersatz sound against emotionally dramatic lyrics.
''I was interested in making something that sounds very unnatural but juxtaposing that with songs that sound very human, very confessional,'' he says. ''Songs about people, songs about romance, songs about rejection, all floating over this synthetic world.''
Yet, when O'Connor sings ''I got over telling my secrets to everyone'' - in steamy duet with long-time foil Jessica Venables of Jessica Says - it sounds as if he has tired of singer-songwriter confessionalism. ''That's true, absolutely,'' he says, ''but that's more about that embarrassing element to that. It's, actually, very much a confessional record.plague the immigration court Cheap Gucci AAA Sunglasses Wholesale Online. That [line] is not about ceasing confession, more about getting better at it; not inarticulately spilling your secrets, as you do when you're young, but learning to present your secrets in a more flattering light.Earn points and challenge your friends to win an Best U-Boat Watches Online! Where they no longer feel like secrets but lies.''
Initial recordings for the album did not have such a slippery sensibility.your closets and dig through those Cheap Chanel A Sunglasses Online in the garage O'Connor began making more ''traditional'' versions - acoustic instruments, orchestral parts, ''almost choral-type arrangements'' - only to find things were not sticking together. So he took his ''classic singer-songwriter folk songs'' and dressed them in polyester yacht-rock threads, attempting to write ''one long soundtrack'' rendered in a singular palette.
Even in a year in which indie bigwigs such as Bon Iver and Destroyer have turned a similar soft-rock trick, those who loved the Left Banke-esque sunshine of Crayon Fields might find the neon, plastic palette of Vanity Is Forever shocking. But, as much as he was adopting a new shtick, O'Connor is no synth dilettante, a tourist in the realms of key tone.
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