Iris FTW.

Ahhhh.... the cover. The last oasis of the uninspired musician. I haven't had a lot of new ideas kicking around in my head lately, but seeing as how we're still very likely going on tour at the end of the year with a synthpop group, it was time to bust out a groovy cover... It's pretty much expected that any unheard of band should include at least one popular cover in their set, so I chose "Sentimental Scar", my favorite track off Iris' awakening.... and, despite it being intended as a live track, I decided to polish it up vocally for you, dear readers, so that you might give me your fair critiques.

I decided to take it in a lower-tempo darker direction than I usually go in, but I felt like the mix needed it... There's also some guitar in there provided by my friend Pete from Lakeshore Driving, and some backup vocals by Micheal in the chorus sections.

Can I just say that transcribing this song gave me new respect for Reagan as melodic songwriter? Damn, those are some fracking good hooks.... Micheal was actually floored (not being a big iris fan) "this is iris? this is some @#%@# good songwriting!" was the direct quote. Yeah. So go check out Iris if you're lame enough to not have already. You big old lame face. Lame-o.