The Windowpanes - Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling
first single
2 minutes, 57 seconds
this was the first song i ever recorded. well, first original song. the first song i ever recorded was in 8th grade, and it was a cover of psst, teenagers, take off your clo by car seat headrest. anyways, this song samples a recording of me and my best friend, and a recording of me messing with my vinyl copy of radiohead's ok computer while the tourist was playing. the song uses only presets from soundtrap, except for the guitar and the samples, obviously. i got a B+ on it. our teacher at the time was not the nicest person. but yeah. i was really into post-punk at the time and you can hear that influence here in the bass and drums. this song absolutely does not hold up, it sounds like trash. but it's fine.
The Windowpanes - Désolé
second single
3 minutes, 7 seconds
this one was fun to record. i made it in my 9th grade music class in the same way i made falling-- my laptop mic, my guitar, and soundtrap presets. but to this day this only one of two songs of mine with actual bass guitar in it. everything else is my guitar pitched down. anyways, this one is alright. there's a really annoying fade-in at the beginning i always wanted to fix, but i lost the original audio file, so it's lost to time. my music teacher retired in 2023, and she was the coolest person ever, i miss her. this song uses the chord progression from pachelbel's canon in d, which we were talking about in class as an example of common chord progressions in songs. i wanted to remake the song and add lyrics for rest, but that never came to be. for the time i recorded it i could have done worse. i'm still really proud of that little acoustic passage at the end. you can tell i was getting really into noisier music and shoegaze here. overall, this song is solid.
The Windowpanes - Stratford
third single
4 minutes, 39 seconds
this was the first song i recorded over the summer of 2024, which was probably my most active period. i would later rerecord this and turn it into static, on promises. i don't mind this. looking back i feel like the chord progression was a bit corny, but i dunno, maybe it's just me. this was a first on a lot of fronts; it was the first time i used an audio interface, the first time i wrote drums and used soundtrap's drum machine, and the first time i wrote something that wasn't meant for school. i'm proud of myself. the song is alright i guess. that bassline has a nice groove to it. this song and the one that'd follow have this really reverby production that feels kinda awkward, especially on the drums. but yeah. i suppose it's not bad for a 15 year old, haha
The Windowpanes - The Escapist
fourth single
8 minutes, 33 seconds
i was obsessed with long songs at the time, and this was a product of that. it's ok. it was featured on cbrd the box, a bandcamp radio show. as of writing this they haven't had a new episode in over a year, so i have the honor of being the last artist ever played on cbrd the box. lucky me. (aj from i chased a crow was on the same episode, go check her stuff out, shell was my album of the year in 2025.) this song samples a douglas adams quote (see: the "wisdom" page), and cheesy hfj. nothing from an episode of ONE, but from the penultimate episode of his remote series. (go watch "remote goes to sleep," it's phenomenal.) i'd remake this one later and turn it into "exit" from promises.
The Windowpanes - Not my songs
first EP
1. Cheerleader [3:36]
2. Two deliverances [3:47]
3. Vampire [2:01]
4. Bodys [5:52]
5. Title track (there is a light) [4:19]
6. Il fait froid [5:32]
7. In the car outside [3:17]
total runtime: 28 minutes, 24 seconds
this was a weird one. i'd been putting out covers one by one and i decided to remix them and compile them into this. first was Two deliverances, then Vampire, then Cheerleader, In the car outside, Title track, then Il fait froid. if i recall correctly. i forget. Bodys was recorded later and released on the EP, no single. this one sounds really rough and lo-fi, almost noisy. my singing is shit and it sounds like i'm trying too hard to go higher than my register. but that's ok. i said for a long time i wanted to make something else that sounded like this, rough and noisy, and i've been kinda doing that with the bride material, but nothing else sounds like this. i never used any amps recording this, it was always my guitar plugged straight into my interface with distortion added in soundtrap. i still love their default dist tone. the drums are distorted as fuck and i love that. Title track was my first time yelling on a recording, though it's more like a raspy yelping. it was also my first time harmonizing vocals, though it was just the octave harmony. In the car outside was my first time double tracking vocals. Vampire was a goofy cover i'd done for fun and that i wanted to record. its single cover is a review of my high school by a graduate. Il fait froid was a song i'd first heard at my very first school band practice. the band was called L'Île du Stylo and one of their members went to my high school. it was a live perforance at La Brunante, a kind of battle of the bands for francophone artists in the area. look it up, it's awesome (username is ketaketish on yt). Bodys was a challege, especially vocally, but i think it turned out really well and i still relisten every now and then (though that may just be because Bodys is already a good song and i change nothing). i think this is very lopsided, but it has some gems. around this time i was obsessed with ai chatbots and stuff, which is where i got inspiration for the opening of Cheerleader (i used their shortlived tts voice feature, the voice was something about a waifu). this would, unfortunately, add to my growing depression and loneliness and play a part in my later original material, but that's for much later. either way, this is pretty fun. it's tight.