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Kicking Gas for Laughs
Mike Downey
hrtph003 : Full Length
Released: June 29, 2008

All files and art in this .zip file
The lossless files are available for purchase here. (You can also stream the album there as well).

1. Casper 2. No Prob 3. No Stereo 4. Oils
5. Who’s Under the Stairs, Who’s Dropping Out and All of That 6. Believer
7. Rescue Rocket 8. Wheel in a White Sky 9. 100 Rooms
10. A Little More Grape Capt. Bragg 11. You Went to War 12. Wait

In 2006 I was in full recording mode. No job; I didn’t have much else to do. This continued through to mid 2007. I amassed a collection of songs so large that I freaked myself out and became overwhelmed. I was used to it taking 3-5 months for a record to come out after it was finished. Not really understanding what my options were at that time I kept these songs under lock and key until earlier this year when I plucked 12 of them out and released them digitally via my own imprint heartphone. This album was called Hold Horses and I see it today as my most accomplished work to date.

I was so satisfied with Hold Horses that I thought it would maintain as my calling card for at least a year until I managed to craft another album’s worth of material. Well, seeing what you see above, this wasn’t the case. What I didn’t consider was this other, admittedly less-planned and not as produced, batch of songs.

I’ve had a playlist in my iTunes for past couple of months called Kicking Gas for Laughs. This playlist was at one time over 20 songs. Over the past week I slimmed it down and not wanting to break tradition selected my 12 favorites.

So here you have it, for what it’s worth, Kicking Gas for Laughs. In my eyes this is a compliment to my latest output and finally represents my music making of the past 2.5 years in full. This was the exhale. I can now take in another deep breath and start the process over again.

–Mike Downey, June 2008

Kicking Gas for Laughs by Mike Downey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License