Kyle Landon - The World Will Spin Without Me (2019) Full Album

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0:00 1. You Told Me to Quit
4:38 2. Nasty
7:23 3. Money's Good If Money's Great
10:31 4. Make 'Em Care
12:52 5. Ringing
16:34 6. Pay Attention
20:19 7. Jet Alone
24:18 8. Demon Tower
28:05 9. Look! I'm Hungry!
31:13 10. The World Will Spin Without Me
Made entirely in the summer of 2018, I just forgot to release it. Seriously. Just fell through. Demotivated, probably.
A concept album about sales. The sister album "SPINNING" takes place somewhere in the middle of here. This was made months before SPINNING.
Released December 20, 2019.
All songs written, performed, programmed, produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Kyle Landon. All videos directed by Kyle Landon. Thanks to Michaela for the voicemail.
Recorded in Summer Square 2018.
2024 writeup. Oooh this one's gonna be a bit different since I gotta talk about the videos too. So why make videos for every song? Just wanted to challenge myself, nothing more to it. This album is shrouded in mystery for me, it was made very quickly, mostly in order. This was the album that originated my process of making up a tracklist first before any songs were written, though two songs ended up getting cut; one named "Who You Wish You Were" and the other "Just Let Me Think". Conceptually, the whole album is about me being a musician shrouded in obscurity, then deciding to sell my soul, and then suffering the consequences of it. You may have noticed that I recorded this and some other things at "Summer Square". Summer Square is not a recording studio or anything, it's just a name I came up with for my room. In the summer, thanks to its positioning and airflow and insulation, it becomes the hottest room in the house, and there's nothing I can do about it. I wrote a song about it in 2018, called, guess what, Summer Square. The chorus goes:
"trapped in a summer square
sink inside memories bare
i have no friends in there
this heat never prepared"
You Told Me to Quit. Yeah, nobody ever actually did, but I thought it was a compelling idea for a song. The birds at the beginning are birds I feel like I've been hearing my whole life. They have a peculiar song they sing and I wanted to capture it somewhere in my discography. No meaning to it other than that. I guess if I think about it now, I could interpret it as a beautiful song being sung by nature for the sake of itself, to contrast with the unnatural journey with music I'm about to take. The song itself is a weird one, like, what genre is this?? It jumps from movement to movement but I feel it represents my state at that time well. This song captures my attention well every time I hear it. I don't think I have anything else quite like it. The video is just me chilling in my room. Really, all of the videos are that lol
Nasty. Yeah this song's gross. One day I was home alone and was messing with my microphone while leaving my speakers on and of course, it started feeding back, and that's the sample you hear for most of the song. This is the part of the story where I seek out new employment and sign some papers. "selling out for peaches cuz cream" is a crazy bar, I'll get my props someday. I feel like I never saw the casting couch used as a meme until after I made this.
Money's Good if Money's Great. Outstanding song, to me. Sounds truly hellish. This is the level of drama I'm always reaching for. This song is about people who allow themselves to get into peculiar situations. The ending "where did all the good men on earth go?" section is from a completely different unreleased song and I genuinely have no idea how I came up with putting it there. For the video I taped my phone to the ceiling, wore my Lil Ugly Mane longsleeve, and laid down on a greenscreen. I was pretty limited at the time but looking back, I respect the effort.
Make 'Em Care. This song got a groove to it. The transformation into pop superstar is progressing... This song has a genuine swagger (to me at least) that I can't deny. There's a genuine cocky confidence in there, its hip-hop, plain and simple. I love how gross the drums are, I just squished them all together with a compressor and now every sound is just fighting to be heard. As for the video? Those aren't my plants, that ain't my dog, I was just in a lucky place for that kinda thing. The things pop culture worships...
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Ringing. I am a true pop star now. I really made a reggaeton song. Jokes aside, I love this track. I kinda regret the "you're in a real hurry to grow up" lyric cuz it comes off as me being creepy towards an underage girl, and I could lie and tell you "yeah, all the pop stars skew towards younger girls, its intentional its part of the story" but nah, it just came out wrong here. Autotune! The female vocal sound is from Sonic Battle, which sampled Sonic Adventure 2. This song is super fun and catchy overall though. And that video! the dancing frog and dinosaur! I just had to put it in after I saw it, why not?? As for the state of my room... Yeah, on one hand, I wanted to have a big dance floor cleared out, but also, my room was already like this half the time anyways because I was constantly taking my whole room apart due to bedbugs. Like, it was really really bad and I have PTSD from it. But I address that in the next album. BTW I solved the bedbugs by throwing the whole mattress out, none of the powders or sprays I bought did anything. I vacuumed daily, washed my sheets regularly, ugh I'm bout to get real upset if I keep talking. Next song. Pay Attention. A real smooth R&Bish track I guess, I'm still not totally sure. Video's nothing special, just my tv playing a video of slowly changing colors. People give the Gorillaz album Humanz a bunch of crap but I loved drum production throughout it, I was definitely channeling it for the drums here. I dunno, not much to say about this one. Just a chill, heartbroken track. Jet Alone. Yes, named after the robot in Evangelion, but this song has zero to do with that. This is a huge symptom of the whole "make up the tracklist first" idea. You get to the song called "Jet Alone" and think its gonna be some big dramatic thing about a giant robot, or maybe something about how you just can't stop walking and you're about to explode, or whatever, but then you write the prettiest chord progression and decide to just go with it. A devotional love song through and through, for someone I wasn't even with yet. Kinda borders on gospel honestly, like I'm worshipping the way she makes me feel. Such a sweet song. Reminds me of Little Pig by Devin Townsend a bit, especially the end. The "don't forget me" part at the end tears me to pieces every time. I would love to perform this with a gospel choir some day. By the way, I am now with the girl this song is about, so never give up lol. The video takes place in my car because we just spent a lot of time talking in there, it kinda became our thing. The trees in the beginning were filmed from inside the pizza place she was working at at the time. Yeah I be going a lil far with it lol. At this point in the story, my heart is beginning to revive itself, despite having been sold earlier. But there's consequences... Demon Tower. One of my best productions ever, if I do say so myself. I can see this big cobblestone tower floating up in the sky, slowly rotating. The sax sample is something I wrote in a prototype version of this song, just a little piece of a solo I did that I then chopped and looped. It was around this time I got my first actual bass (any live bass you heard in previous albums was a pitched down guitar) so tracks like this really benefitted greatly from it. The "it's me" is totally out of Kate Bush's Under Ice. Storywise, I have to try to break out of this Demon Tower I have been imprisoned in. Its like industrial rap plus jazz, I can't think of anything else like it exactly. One of my all time favorites. So tense, yet classy. This is my favorite video of the bunch. It's probably the only video with actually dope ideas and visuals. The star of the show is my painting named "watermelon cat." The whole thing with my shadow rapping is my favorite, even when you can see my microphone cable sometimes. Dunno why I left it plugged in but it's history now. There's some lyrics here that technically are a "diss" towards a very popular artist we all know. The "how can you be upset in a top 10" line and the "drowning in gold" line, specifically. There was news at the time about this artist complaining about their new single hitting number 2 on the charts or whatever, and my whole thing is, I write, rap, and sing circles around you in every way, and you don't even produce, but if you did, my instrumentals would exterminate your beats. I destroy your speculative production capability. And you're complaining that you only moved 200,000 units in a week? I move 0 units. You're McDonalds. I'm the best thing your dead grandma ever cooked that you miss dearly and will never taste again. Get the fuck out of my face with that. If you make decent money from this beautiful thing called music, I will NEVER have any sympathy for any complaints you have or issues you face. Go get a therapist and read an Eckart Tolle book; you have time, you have resources. Me and another 10,000 people are better than you at this in every way and we work at Walmart, be grateful. "This is for those, drowning in diamonds and gold." Look! I'm Hungry! Perhaps my most desperate song. If you're gamer, you immediately caught the Majora's Mask sample. As a kid, and really still to this day, I always thought Odolwa was saying "He's on his way!" I just put it in there cuz I thought it would sound cool, and it did. The song came together very quickly and naturally. Featuring my first real noise section. I love this song dearly too. You know how many times I've had $200 left to my name? It's happened like 8 times over my adult life. This song truly sounds hungry, but not in a "ooh he trying to get out the streets with this one" type hip hop way, but more of a "ooh he's dead starving, running on the final bit of adrenaline his body will ever be capable of producing, foaming at the mouth, trying to catch and eat a pigeon raw" type of starving. Just total chaos and animalistic sadness. The video contains me just freaking out on the floor of my room, but also has a couple of shots of me from 2015, recording some scary video of me mouthing to, I think the older version of Drain (from Selfish Animal, which was originally made for an earlier album) and I didn't shave for like 3 weeks and intentionally stayed up for like 30 hours to see if it made me look/act crazy, In the story, I get dropped from my contract and receive my soul back, but what does that fix, really? The World Will Spin Without Me. Maybe my best rock song, if we don't count Abandon You and The Boy in the Light. I sure know how to end an album. Anyways, the "they called me prize" is the single best vocal I've ever recorded and it GLITCHED, you can hear it if you pay attention during the word "consolation," it skips ahead a little bit. This song is all about how I could try my best and still fail. I could try to help people, set them on a better path, and still be ignored. I wish I mixed it better but the point still gets across. Someone randomly stumbled upon this song like a year ago and left a perplexing comment, about how "i have potential, but need a producer" and I just wonder, like, am I actually trash? Am I delusional? I need a producer? What does that even mean? Is this not produced well? This is produced better than every mainstream radio rock song made past like, 2010. Get out of here with that. The long pretty ending part with all the guitars originally had me reading out a big letter to a past love, but was just too much, and got in the way, and wasn't totally relevant to the album at all. Gotta curb the catharsis sometimes. Not really anything to talk about with the video, it's mostly black. I was completely tapped out of ideas at this point smh. Notice the End of Evangelion "the end" part though. I would love to play this song with a band some day.