Said The Wrong Thing – Aeroplastic Voice

The vibe is about an individual scratching to stay free of the things that others impose. The lyrics and their delivery are ragged raw. While I get that some will say this is not ok, I think it is the only way to scream in the face of fashion and tyranny without becoming the very thing you detest.

No AI – No Loops – No Samples

In a sea of slop, AI or otherwise, strikingly human is the only alternative. Humanity, especially human frailty, is the very thing that AI and all the gridification that has overtaken music cannot deliver. We cannot expect to siphon off fans from Trailer Swift or The Prodigy or whoever with shiny slop. Best to be so very different that the few looking for humanity will connect because of that rarity. It is a thing people will get or not.

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Making Of

This album takes me back to my very beginnings as Aeroplastic Voice. Aeroplastic Voice is where I started, really raw with songs in a Post Punk – EBM form. I used my AV branding to make it clear that this is not a typical Benedict release.

• Secret Singer: lyrics & vocals, music
• Benedict Roff-Marsh: music, production, mixing & mastering, extra vocals

Being me, the way to work these songs up was to lean right into the last time such a thing occurred and make like Arrietty Clock with the music I grew up on. So it ended up with a strange mutant child of Goth and early EBM with shades of Metal, and even the Garage that became Grunge. If I were to make a shortlist, it would be: The Sisters of Mercy, The Neon Judgement, The Clash/B.A.D., and Dinosaur Jr. Therefore, the music is my own form of scratching & screaming.

I won’t lie, Secret Singer hated singing, and it broke the project. It left me with the option of abandoning the work altogether or – waste not, want not – putting it out on my own. I did consider re-singing the songs (to let Secret Singer out of their cringe entirely), but the reality is that I would not top what was there enough to justify undoing the moments and feelings that made this record what it is. Perfection is a dangerous tool. Sometimes we must just scratch and scream.

While there are references to drug use in some of these songs, I do not approve of or encourage such things. I accept them simply because they are how Secret Singer (or at least the characters he presented) felt. While as a Record Producer it is my job to edit, it is not my job to judge, or more accurately, be judgmental.