Thursday, August 22, 2019

"Stag" LP now available everywhere





1. SPY CATS
2. Don't Call Me Daddy-O
3. 18
4. COMFORTABLE IN THE GRAVE
5. Burnout
6. BUTTERCUP
7. I ain't sentimental
8. STRICTLY MODERN
9. Lobotomy
10. georgie
11. Abe's Song
12. Never thought much


All songs written and performed by wm t skillets except "Burnout" written by Billie Joe Armstrong, with
Scott Mihalik - Drums, Percussion
Stefan Rickelt - Bass
Eliza Wiener - Violin, Additional Vocals
and
Laura Díaz Sanchez - Piano on "Lobotomy"

Drum recorded by Mike Troost.
Album cover photo by Steve Mihalik.

Thanks to Emily, Colin, Andrés, Megan, Simon, Brady, Bjorn, Lee, Abe and Lindsay for feedback.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

"Jet Lag" now available via Bandcamp


1. expats
2. Womb
3. Leg Work
4. 1100 Miles Down the Mississippi
5. LONG HAIR DON'T CARE
6. abq/crossroads
7. Sediment
8. I MUST BE CRAZY
9. Charts
10. Enough Is Not Enough, Apparently

Background:
Largely recorded at my mom’s house in Oxford, MI at the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014, before I moved to Austin, in a room that contained all the remaining musical odds and ends from me and my brother’s rocknroll adolescence. Only tracks 2, 5, 6 and 7 were actually written for the record, the rest are old. I wrote “Charts” when I was 20 and creepily in love but didn’t like it until now.  Also strange is I wrote that bit about the Rhine River not even being sure where it was located but now have lived by it in two different countries. “Leg Work” (circa 2009) was just waiting for more words, the right arrangement and that drum beat, which I thought would be more like Sam Cooke’s “Chain Gang.” Tracks 1, 4, 8, 10 were recorded long ago and just needed the right record to go on. In fact, Brett, Austin and I used to play “Enough…” when we were on tour in the midwest back in 2009.

Credits:
Scott played drums on 10 (that’s his yelp at the end.) We recorded his part in his dad’s living room some summer during college.  We didn’t have headphones good enough for him to hear over his drums, so I had to wear them and stand in his line of sight but two rooms over, conducting, so that he could match the tempo of the rest of the recordings.

Mixing help and emotional support from Lee Marcinak and Garrett Anderson.

All words and music written by wm t skillets.


Monday, January 28, 2013

Night shall eat Nathan K. "GHOSTS"


This is a remix of Nathan K's outstanding "Ghosts".
Click here to download.



Hear the original on his full length "Dishes" (available for download at nathank.bandcamp.com)

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

https://twitter.com/nightshalleat

"AFTER THE PARTY" [EP] now available





Night shall eat
AFTER THE PARTY [EP]



1. If you like it…*
2. Flowershop
3. After the Party
4. Joys Are Flowing Like a River*
5. Currency
6. The Sea of Tranquility

Songs written and recorded by Wm t Skillets, mostly in a dusty bathroom under a staircase like where Harry Potter lived (the recording, I mean, not the writing) in Tourcoing, France at the beginning of 2012 and in a sunny attic in Santiago de Compostela, Spain that summer.  Andrew Reaume wrote the guitar solo in "The Sea of Tranquility".  The whistling solo in "Flowershop" might have been lifted from a Chicago song, the name of which I can't recall.

Artwork by Scott Mihalik.

*"If you like it…" taken from "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," written by Beyoncé Knowles, Thaddis Harrell, Christopher Stewart, Terius Nash.
*"Joys Are Flowing Like a River" written by Manie P. Ferguson

DOWNLOAD IT ON BANDCAMP

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

NEXT BIG THING (01 feb 2011)


01 I'M SHY
02 what would you like to dream about?
03 POUR OLIVIA: un
04 ARCTIC DAUGHTERS
05 POUR LEI: car nous partons d'Angers
06 New Theory [washed out cover]
07 POUR OLIVIA: deux
08 SEIKA IF…

credits:
Scott played the drums. Austin whistled, said mmnah and pretty much made "seika if…" sound a whole lot cooler, all while enduring a rather gay experience recording under a blanket in my Rachel's room. Yenni Tseng wrote the first two lines of "I'M SHY". Willy wrote everything (except New Theory), played most of it, sang it, did some other stuff. Oh and Austin did the cover art. Nobody got paid.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

YES, WEEK-END (04 feb 2010)

YES, WEEK-END

01 CALL ME ON YOUR WAY BACK HOME [Ryan Adams cover]
02 I'M A LADY [Santigold cover]
03 RIGHT NOW AND NOT LATER [The Shangri-las cover]
04 WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? [The Supremes cover]
05 CASSIUS CLAY

credits:
Rachel Auriemma, Nate Moore, Austin Hermann, Alex Mandrila, Kevin Jenkins, Mikey Benedict and Alex Lopez sang, Alex M, Kevin, Mikey and Willy played on "WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?", Alex M photographed, Nate photoshopped, Willy did other music stuff. Willy wrote "CASSIUS CLAY".