Summary.

The sound of “Fade” is glassy, layered, dark, and borderline avant-garde.  A well-produced song, it transitions dramatically between a haunting chorus and melodic instrumental sections, then backed up to an epic outro that is highly orchestral and compelling.  This is definitely a song that you can listen to several times and still hear new elements every time.

Release Info.

Fade was originally released on the Arm Chair Delusions album.

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Credits.

Music: Elijah Shepard
Lyrics: Elijah Shepard
Performance: Elijah Shepard (vocals, guitars, bass, programming, orchestration, piano, pots, pans)
Production: Elijah Shepard
Mixing: Elijah Shepard
Mastering: Elijah Shepard

Lyrics.

It will all fade – somehow

who knows better than I

It will all fade – somehow

make me whole again

Factoids.

The song was originally called “Descendant” when it was written.  At one point, it evolved to be called “Faded” before finally ending up with the title of “Fade.”  The sheer amount of revisions and alternate versions for this song is scary.  Some of the myriad of melodies for it may surface in the future in the form of other songs (TBD). I ditched the vocals for the verses and just made it a song with chorus vocals. This seemed to accentuate the indulgent nature of the song as the end of the track is a wall of sound with full orchestra and guitars as well as my indian/eastern style vocals during the outro.