Roy Coughlin: Engineer, Producer, Publicist, Driver, Songwriter.
Influences
Gabe Vodicka, Robert Gunn, the ghost of Jason Molina.
Sounds Like
All music recorded on Mac laptops using GarageBand and Audacity by amateurs with hearts big and golden. Hi-tech lo-fi, dig?
Roy Coughlin:
The Mission Demos - Acoustic guitars, haunting piano, distorted bass, conversation samples, plaintive vocals, and lyrics about the theoretical physics of relationships; it sounds like the end of something refusing to end.
Roy Coughlin, Gabe Vodicka, Robert Gunn:
Visitor - Compilation of cover songs you didn't ask for, performed and recorded independently by three friends scattered over the globe. Features songs by Superchunk, Magnolia Electric Co., Bruce Springsteen, Anthony Hamilton, Heros Severum, and MORE! It's really . . . fun.
Expat Recordings operates out of strange bedrooms and an iBook G4. We record and release music by some jackass named Roy Coughlin -- an ex-Athenian (Georgia, not Greece) and former member of An Epic At Best, Some Animal, Sugar Dixx, and Heros Severum. Occasionally we release collaborations with like-minded friends. And by release we mean burn some CD-Rs, make some covers at Kinkos, and give them away to twenty or thirty people.
Copies are available in quality CD-R format for FREE, complete with quirky artwork and whatnot (we use found/recycled materials for our packaging and artwork when we can). Send us your address and we'll totes mail that shit, dude. Downloads are cool, sure, but we're talking about something handmade that you can, you know, hold in your hand.
HOT NEW SHIT:
Visitor (cover songs you didn't ask for) - Roy Coughlin, Gabe Vodica, Robert Gunn * 2009 * CD-R
that bruce is a sneaky asshole. you listen to him and a moment is bubblized (new word) and every time you fucking hear that song again the bubble pops and emotions and smells and tactile things hit you in the face but where ever you are STILL EXISTS TOO. so that is just more memories stored in the bubble, those bubbles get so fucking HEAVY, bubbles just aren't meant to be that way. fuck bruce. i love you bruce.
men.... i don't know what to say to you... got home after my trip to NY adn i found myself smiling at the most beautiful postcard ever received by any human being..o Oh sugar it is wonderful... i am super tired today just got home from my trip but i want to see you....i will call you tomorrow si? i really love my postcard.... haven't decide where am i gonna hang it.... much love...
France, san francisco, chicago... you're a real bohemian, man. I don't particularly LOVE chicago. I'd rather come visit you in the Bordeaux region. You smell what I'm steppin in?
love, sorry i didnt come through last night.... i am not getting drunk anymore...i dont really know what happened but is not happening.... anywho..... we will dance again.... hope you are well.. kisses
actually, i have heard his music. awesome. don't know him in person, but ya know, sweden's not that huge a country, i might run into him one of these days! then i will tell him that there's a man in a faraway land who really digs him. i dig your new stuff btw! cheers mate.
about moi? well.. i hope you just talk about my beauty other wise i wouldnt like it.. :) my ladies are still in town, but next week it will be easier to go back to my social life.... as soon as that happens you'll see me...oh dear... you will see me..... kisses
Molina has made a striking presence here, again, but in a slightly different way. Can it really be different? I can't listen without thinking of you. We shouldn't listen, you know? We should never listen. And yet, I will... oh I WILL.
