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Postdata is the solo project of Paul Murphy of Wintersleep.

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These are my grandparents. They passed away two years ago and left me thirty or forty pieces of songs in a series of dreams, not Coleridge-esque opium dreams though unfortunately, just regular dreams. Kinda sad dreams. This is for them.

This is their daughter, my mother. I call her mom though, not mother. This is for her.

This is my father. Sometimes he feels left out. This is for you too dad.

This is my stomach.

This is me.

I started working on this record a couple of years ago at my parents’ house in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia with my brother Michael.

This is Michael.

We had a little too much time on our hands. Some scotch too. We wanted to make a present for mom. She’d had a tough year. With little preparation (a laptop, no microphones, click tracks, or even tuners come to think of it), we recorded about 12 ideas and we went our separate ways.

Eight months later we found a free weekend in Halifax and tried the same thing, reworking a cluster of songs from the first session and adding four extra songs to the workload. We used the same laptop, but this time we rented actual, real microphones and we used click tracks for a few songs and tuners for the most part. We think. Maybe a little less scotch this time around.

Some of the songs turned out to be fuller and more mature after a second take, better than expected. Other songs maybe didn’t quite hit the mark. But the recording as a whole, the half-finished, early conception somewhat fragmented material, seems to do something quite nice.

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  • Shmuh

    new favourite.

    October 2011
  • arobbbee

    Lovely.

    September 2011
  • marakujja

    so tenderly sad

    August 2011
  • itscaroline

    best music to listen to when you're driving, or sitting on a bench as everything moves around you. best music anytime of any day, really.

    December 2010
  • butwhenidream

    paul murphy, its not possible for you to not break my heart beautifully in any project you do

    November 2010
  • Xenophanes2113

    beautiful.

    October 2010
  • WallDoe

    the record just fit when i missed my train and had to wait an hour, drunk in the middle of the night. i cant imagine a better first into-listening.

    May 2010
  • groupiee

    :)

    May 2010
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