From the creative force behind Alanalda we finally have a full-length song collection featuring tracks about flies, peeping toms, keeping up appearances and depression (amongst many other topics!).

10 MP3 Songs in this album (36:24) !
Related styles: Pop: Beatles-pop, Rock: Lo-Fi, Type: Lo-Fi

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Details:
Ican Ican't is the latest musical project by Dermot O'Leary, the singer-songwriter and frontman for now-defunct Dublin band Alanalda. Recorded at various stages during 2010 and 2011 in the farmhouse in which he lives in County Kilkenny this collection is his first ever album release. Using Garageband and free-to-use drum loops downloaded from various free-loop websites the songs are all fully written, arranged and performed by Dermot himself. Lyrically they mostly deal with the human condition but there are also stories about peeping tom characters and recycling. Two of the songs were directly inspired by TV and Film. "Your Move" was influenced by one of Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Dekalog' series of short films in which a young postal worker develops an infatuation for a woman whose apartment is directly across from his and he spies on her. "Backyard (We Don't Need Everything)" was inspired by a scene in the HBO series 'Six Feet Under' where the Fisher family have a bonfire in their backyard burning what they haven't managed to sell in a yard sale.

All songs written, arranged and performed by Dermot O'Leary.
Drum loops from Garageband, Bandmates, ProTools, PowerFX and Beathive.
Track 10 Goodbye Cruel World uses wave/sea sounds from freesound.org: waves.wav by inchadney