Is This How You Demo?

I don’t know exactly what a “demo” is supposed to be, I’ve seen context that it’s a thing you send to labels or what have you as a demonstration, and I’ve also seen it as sort of a “working” version of a track, usually without all the instruments yet figured out. This is the latter.

My band made an album of demo songs. The idea here is that lyrics-wise, these songs were actually written beforehand. The guitars are still pretty much all improv, but the idea was to record it, then all of us have to listen to it for a month or so and actually learn and practice the songs so that we can later record a better version.

Importantly, even in demo form, these are easily the best songs we’ve recorded yet. Working around pre-written lyrics makes a *huge* difference. The question is, will the guitarists actually be interested in learning the songs, adding to them, perfecting them, etc? I certainly hope so. I’d love it if these became “real” songs and we released them as a “real” album. (lol I can tell just from the number of plays on purevolume that they haven’t even listened to these songs since I released them on like Friday).

You can here the “I Just Wanna Folk” demos here, though I have FLACs if you prefer: http://www.purevolume.com/TrialoftheGoldenWitch/albums/I+Just+Wanna+Folk