Bedroom Boogie by Thom Coombes

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Any purchases for this PWYC album are certainly appreciated.

Alternatively, consider donating what you would spend on this album to one of the following organizations, and let me know at thomascoombes@gmail.com and I will e-mail you a download code.

https://www.girlsrocknl.com/donate-1
https://www.gofundme.com/f/blmvan
https://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/
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I started recording this album in the Summer of 2018 while house sitting for my parents, taking care of their pets and plants. I was gearing up to leave my little Newfoundland home to be with my sweetheart on the other side of the country.

I spent those weeks tying up loose ends and dealing with the clutter of my life. I began selling most of my music gear that I rarely used anymore, finding good homes for once loved instruments. I dusted off old faithful -a clunky tascam 424 cassette recorder- and set it up in what used to be my grandmother's bedroom, filling tapes as if they were some kind of sonic scrapbook, capturing my last rendezvous with thrift-store keyboards and various guitars.

A few weeks later I began driving across the country with my life packed into a little car, including a suitcase full of tapes and the 4-track recorder.

Old faithful stayed buried in the back of a closet for 2019, because some years are like that, I guess.

I recorded and re-recorded some more songs in the Spring/Summer of 2020, on the other side of the country, while my sweetheart worked late at the hospital, and I, recently laid-off, took care of our own pets and plants.

So this album rests on the heels of an old life, while welcoming a burgeoning new one.

XO



Album art by Noah Jake Bender.

not me. not now.