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Audio Fuzz – Powerful Folk Pop

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Kind words from AudioFuzz about our single Riot. Click HERE to read the article.

“Supersmall is composed of singer-songwriter, Colin Dempsey, and drummer, Daniela Schiller. Dempsey is an Irish writer and storyteller based in New York. He has performed his unique blend of indie-rock music in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and most recently, the US. Schiller is a musician, storyteller and Neuroscientist, who leads the Schiller Lab of Affective Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.  Together, they make beautiful dreamy pop music in the same vein as The Mountain Goats and a more straight-forward version of Neutral Milk Hotel with stripped down production.  There is nothing at all small about Supersmall, they are a large sounding folk/pop group.  Beautiful vocals, beautiful arrangements.” – AudioFuzz

A Better Life by Supersmall.

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My band, Supersmall, will be releasing it’s album Silent Moon at the end of this month!

When? Monday, September 28th, 7pm.

Where? Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3.

How Much? $10 which includes a copy of the album.

Click HERE for tickets to the show.

Below is a stream of the first track on the record.

New Song & First Gig

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View from Rehearsal Studio

Rehearsal tonight was exactly what I needed, fun. I was frustrated with several delays in finishing the E.P. and a host of other stuff in general. It happens and is all part of the creative process. I’m sure things will turn out fine in the end, they always do. Long story short, rehearsal was a ton of fun and all spirits are lifted regardless.    

I brought in a new song tonight that I had been picking on for a long time. It’s a simple and dark/odd tune but I’m very proud of it and we both agreed to add it to our growing set after running through it a few times. Daniela put a great rhythm to it and helped working out the stops & starts (It stops and starts a lot). Thirteen original songs and counting, not bad right? We’re still anti-cover right now but we’re both huge Neil Finn fans and ‘Distant Sun’ may sneak in eventually.

We have our first ever show on the 29th of January at UCBEast. I wish the E.P. was ready but we’ll showcase three songs from it anyway: This Other World, Goodbye Old Friend & Wherever We Are. We timed ourselves and came in 14 seconds under the allotted time we were given – can you tell that the band consists of a Scientist and an Engineer? Rock N’ Roll baby!

HOME (TURN OFF THE LIGHTS) – Supersmall January 2013
I know you’re quite devoted
When something’s wrong
Drinking until your dried out
Escape and roam
And you want love, ‘coz you need love
From inside out, below, and above.
Roll it in, roll it out
Roll it in, roll it out
Like a tide that brings you home
Dried up under a spotlight
In search for home
The fear of disappearing
Before you’re done
And you want love, ‘coz you need love
From inside out, below, and above.
Roll it in, roll it out
Roll it in, roll it out
Like a tide that brings you home
I can see the edge
Of I told you so
Time and time again
The beating little hearts 
Of a soulless town
Always welcome you
From wherever you’ve been
Home
Roll it in, roll it out
Roll it in, roll it out
Roll it in, roll it out
Roll it in, roll it out
Like a tide that brings you home  

Goodbye Old Friend (2009) – Demo

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I wrote this a while back and it always stuck in my head as a song that I might be able to use someday. It’s about a specific person I know from home but that’s all I’ll say. I’d like to put it forward as a possible song for the E.P. although I do not think it is strong enough just yet. This is yet another song I wrote when I was discovering American country/folk music.

I spent most of tonight recording layer after layer to build up a song that was pretty basic to begin with. In the end I realized that all I needed was four tracks. Voice, guitar, bass and a little lead. Simple is best.

Good Bye Old Friend – C. Dempsey 2009

Goodbye old friend and ghosts of good times past,
You faded through the years and disappeared at last,
Now you’re a stranger I know every thing about,
Looking for a reason and finding shadows of the past.

Everything is changing,
Everything but you,
When darkness falls inside my heart I go walking back to you.

Na Na Na Na Na

You’re better as a memory, less now as a friend,
I look to where you used to be, these phantom pains won’t end,
Then you go and lose yourself to a safer side of life,
Like a pleasant dream that leaves you in the darkest part of night.

Everything is changing,
Everything but you,
When darkness falls inside my heart I go walking back to you.

Na Na Na Na Na

What we had was a house of cards,
That we built in bars all around this town,
Mother’s ruin, long afternoons,
Hearts confessed, times I won’t forget, no I won’t forget at all.

Na Na Na Na Na

This Grenade Will Love You – Demo

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*Very rough demo above*

This is a new song added to our E.P. list. It’s a fast one with a country/blues feel to it. The guitar is in an open D tuning. Leslie does a great piano riff over the verse while Daniela keeps a steady rolling beat throughout with brushes that’s not too overpowering. I still need to work out the bass which always changes the entire color of a song, maybe this weekend over a few beers. Regarding the lyrics, I think we’ve all been close to someone like the person in this song at sometime. I’ve known far too many.

This Grenade Will Love You

Verse #1
I have to hide, have to crawl,
Deep inside your heart,
After everything you’ve done.
I travel wide, can’t escape,
Those words like butcher’s knives.
The past, a rising tide.

Chorus
Conversations playing ‘round,
My empty head, both soft and loud.
This grenade will love you,
You say, this grenade will love you,
Each and every time.

Verse#2
Echoes in the night, and you lose your mind,
And you drown yourself in light,
Then watch all sorrows taking flight.
Leaving you here, a ship without a wheel,
And you’re anchored to the vine.
Oh grenade, tell me that you’re mine.

Chorus
Conversations playing round,
My empty head, both soft and loud.
This grenade will love you,
You say, this grenade will love you,
Each and every time.

Middle Eight
It’s a shame you’re going nowhere,
Can’t move forward, cant remember.
A troubled heart sleeps, a troubled heart sleeps,
and it floats in cheap wine.

Chorus
Conversations playing round,
My empty head, both soft and loud.
In libation’s wake we sail,
Try deny it, I’ll see you in hell.
This grenade will love you,
You say, this grenade will love you,
Each and every time.