Golden Dappled Thoughts, Momentarily

by Damon Smith

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1.	I'm Feeling Sick Now 04:12		buy track
2.	Way Down, Way Down Deep 03:59	info	buy track
3.	It's Time To Let The Wolves Out 03:20		buy track
4.	Self Centred, Sweet Charming Man 04:28		buy track
5.	Stop, A Word I Never Understood 06:10		buy track
6.	The Sun And The Moon 03:21		buy track
7.	Bending Breaking, Broke 05:17		buy track
8.	All I Ever Wanted 04:57		buy track
9.	These Are Days Followed By Nights 04:55		buy track
10.	The Idea Of Waiting 03:38		buy track
11.	The Strength Of A Bull 03:05		buy track

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While performing live in several contrasting live theatre projects over the last few years leaving limited time to output his own music, Smith's staggered release of singles has finally found their way to the album, GOLDEN DAPPLED THOUGHTS, MOMENTARILY.

In his last full-length record since 'I Thought I'd Be Someone By Now' Smith discharges a stockpile of issues, predicaments and complications throughout 11 tracks.

In 'way down, way down deep', Smith ruminates on the subject of loneliness, says vacuous prayers to the universe and contentedly, finds himself walking away from everything he had ever wished for. With a fine dash of poetic license, Smith has created stories about people, mostly from his own experiences and in the case of 'Stop', the outcome is vaguely transparent. "I gave my salute to the captain, and jumped ship, into the water, and sank like a stone to the Floor"

The flaws of longterm relationships are explored in, 'I'm feeling sick, now' with sardonic lyricism like, "We need cooling off, and hosing down" and in its followup, song 'These Are Days' that all-knowing feeling of defeat hours after an argument, results in the throwaway comment, 'I been avoiding you, hoping you had swallowed your tongue, so you couldn't tell, this is the man you've become'.

Song, 'Bending, Breaking Broke', depicts life as a Bipolar Disorder, sufferer and has some of the most heart on sleeve lyrics you're likely to hear about mental illness.

Picked as a theme song for the Australian television show, 'Under The Milky Way' and subsequently winning an award for BEST THEME SONG FOR A TELEVISION SHOW in 2019, the song, 'The Sun and The Moon' also ruminates on the idea of relationships, but this time, in observation of two people reaching past their own private lives and loves, in a love affair that conjures up a sense of right and wrong in the mind of the song's author, until finally, understanding that it was none of his business in the first place and that if two conflicting forces or opposites, like the Sun and The Moon wanted to be together, then so be it.

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released March 27, 2020

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Damon Smith.
Additional mixing and production by Rohan Sforcina at Hundred Acres Recording Studio on Tracks, 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9.
Additional mixing and production by Fraser Montgomery at The Aviary Recording Studio on tracks, 3,4 and 6.

Backing Vocals by Sabrina McKenzie and Tammy Martin - Tracks 3 and 6.
Backing vocals by Kate Walker - Track 8
Backing Vocals by Ian Birdwheel Frights - Track 4
Drums by Rohan Sfocina - Tracks 1,2, 5,8 and 9
Drums by Adam Coad - Tracks 6
Drums by Damon Smith - Tracks 4 and 10.
Violin by Paul Jonas - Tracks 6
Violin by Damon Smith - 3 and 4.
Sousaphone - Jay Scarlett
Lap/slide guitar by Jethro Pickett - Track 5
All other organs, piano, guitar, synth, bass and vocal parts by Damon Smith.

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Damon Smith Melbourne, Australia

Damon Smith is a Multi-award-winning composer, lyricist, music producer, writer, instrumentalist, filmmaker and performer living in Melbourne.

An independent artist in the literal, he’s the man in the driver’s seat, from composition to production. With an unrestrained desire for spitting out his tales of ordinary life while ruminating on thought-provoking subject matter, ... more

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Jun 2

Mercury Lounge

New York (NYC), NY

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