Recurring Themes by Thom Coombes

"All of my nightmares have recurring themes."

Recorded in February 2013 for the RPM Challenge, mostly for the purpose of demo-ing new material, and for trading albums with other artists.

While some of these songs will eventually become a part of the "Thom & the Tomcats" repertoire, other songs on here sound (more or less) the way I envisioned them; so they are unlikely to exist on another album.

Recorded in between visiting hours, on my tascam 4-track cassette recorder (the MF-P01 model), which I got it when I was 12 years old, and grew up recording music on. Over the month, the device starting to fall apart, and I moved into more digital overdubbing. The last songs were entirely recorded on my old computer. So, this is a mixed medium -or a Frankenstein's monster- of recordings.

So, this album is a bit of a tribute to my late 4-track (2000 - 2013) and to some of my favourite 4-trackers (Refrigerator, Franklin Bruno, John Davis, Simon Joyner, Ramon Speed, and many more) who continue to inspire and influence my own musical direction.

Tracklist

1.	Open as a Door	2:42

2.	Mascara	4:55

3.	Cold Shoulder to Lean On	3:23

4.	Spare Time	2:12

5.	Patterns	3:00

6.	Plateaus	3:19

7.	Change in the Weather	3:59

8.	Keep Cool (phone demo)	1:39

9.	How I Learned to Love the Rain	6:36

10.	(the rain)	1:23

11.	Open as a Door	3:35

Credits

released February 19, 2013

Thom: Guitars, Bass, Casio, Vocals
Meghan Hollett: Vocals (1, 2, 7, 9)
Scrambled Meggz: Vocal (1)
Wyatt Hirschfelt Shibley: Saw (9, 10)

All songs written and recorded by Thom Coombes.

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