Soft Hits by Ashby & the Oceanns

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Back in April, 2016 I moved to Chicago. This is a collection of songs I wrote over my first summer in the city. A lot of the songs are about my last couple relationships and finding closure during a really tough, stressful transition in my life.

The songs were written and recorded at three different houses in Chicago. One where I stayed a month in a small room with an inflatable mattress, one with a few dogs and a couple of drum kits, and finally, the quiet house I live at now... Oh, and one song was recorded on a pitchy piano in a garage somewhere.

It's also the first album where I played most of the songs live months before recording, so the songs have been changing and growing, and hopefully the album is stronger for that reason!

I'm glad I get to release music that people will listen to! I hope everyone enjoys the album! I'm glad it's done! I'm ready to move on to some different, exciting stuff! Uhm, that's it!

Tracklist

1.	Cicada Song (Dead Skin)	2:30

2.	If I Had A Dollar...	2:32

3.	We Were Friends	2:40

4.	Inflatable Mattress	4:31

5.	Split Ends	2:44

6.	Calm Waves	2:59

7.	Summer Girl	3:15

8.	The U-Haul Song	2:15

9.	Wasted	3:29

10.	I Saved The Whales	3:06

Credits

released November 8, 2016

Ash Barker- Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals, etc!
(All of the songs were recording using Audacity, and a shitty HP laptop that is on the verge of crashing!)

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