In Which I Do Something Only Slightly Self Aggrandizing

If pressed I think I would have to say that my favorite thing to do is record music. Basically, whenever I've got a bit of free time I will invariably try to record something. This creates a pretty constant stream of musical creations, some of them good, some of them bad. Sometimes I make things that I don't particularly feel would fit into the context of my band The Elegant Bachelors. For a long while I wasn't quite sure what to do with those. Over spring break, I experienced a particular glut of free time and recorded an entire album. Because of this I decided I needed to do something with all of this nonsense that I was recording.

Thus The Margins were born.


I am not going to front, The Margins are sort of bizarre and often sound more than a little like Jandek, largely because that is mostly what I have been listening to lately and I wanted to see if I could do that. I suppose if I were to start listening to a lot more Ted Nugent these songs would start moving in that direction. In spite of this I am rather proud of the album that I made called "El Que Nace No Se Logra" and I figured posting it to my blog was less of a high risk endeavor than trying to sell it for real money.

This album is a concept record of sorts with nine songs titled as follows:
1. Hands to Touch
2. Lungs to Breathe
3. Legs to Walk
4. Mouth to Speak
5. Eyes to See
6. Heart to Beat
7. Ears to Hear
8. Arms to Hold
9. God to Thank

However, the download for this album consists of only two tracks. You see, I recorded the album to cassette and thought it would be nice to maintain the cassette/LP feel of the album.

So, if I haven't lost you by now with the comparisons to Jandek and the inevitable low quality because of the medium onto which it was recorded you can find a download for it here.

If you like it let me know. If you don't, hold your peace, I have a very fragile psyche.