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VOL.VI
I broke spiritually this month but I made the best record I had ever made with any band. I had become obsessed with the sound of the organ. I had dropped to hundred and sixty five pounds. I was past grief, I just felt alone. I was pretty despondent.

I would create a song Friday night, finishing around two or three in the morning. I'd wake up at nine, put vocals on it, go to the coffee shop with my laptop and midi keyboard and make a beat. I would then go home; lay vocals on it, that night start it all over and repeat the same steps on Sunday. It was my own personal boot camp.

“Be a better man, keep plans crumpled in diary pages, place them above public park trash cans, learn to like being a ghost”

The music for “I'm Sure It's Complicated” was done at the coffee shop. I remember because it was a cold fall and I kept getting up and trying to sit in the sun so my fingers wouldn't go numb.

I played my first show as Bashful Hips. I had no equipment of my own and everyone else on the bill was an acoustic singer song writer. I hooked my computer straight through the P.A. with no effects on the vocals. I did a twenty minute set including three songs that I had written in the last seventy two hours.

My ex was there with her friend. I told the crowd I had learned some new dance moves. I danced and rapped through the whole set. The people there ate it up. One lady in the back was laughing. I guess she thought it was a joke.

When it was over my ex was outside smoking cigarettes, I quickly left with my laptop in hand. I screamed my throat dry during the car ride home in my car.

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Mood swings and restless feelings,
Exercise to burn my whole being,
Ask questions, be friendly, and try to place my chaotic energy
Be on the upswing of things, it’s easy when you were pushed so low
A punishment you gave me, I’ll live with it forever

How does that make you feel?
I’m sure it’s complicated; to me it doesn’t even feel real
to me it doesn’t even feel

I want to return to my earliest form,
But I get the chance to walk through a different door,
I’m always so damn unsure,
I wear my heart underneath long, long sleeves
Underneath wool sweaters,
I have a layer of cotton as armor

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Bashful Hips Chicago, Illinois

Bashful Hips is an Avant Garde project from the mind of Ian Fellerman. Bringing his sometimes searing, sometimes hilarious but always poignant observations to bear over an entire stable of Noise Rock/Hip Hop informed Electronica, Ian's music is never stable, always changing and searching for the sound to express his feelings.
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