The Troubled Times: Smudge (2025)

“Nutso falling over kind of wonkiness from mid-winter” = Antony Milton

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credits

Antony Milton – guitar, synths
Dave Edwards – guitar
David Heath – drums & percussion

Tracks 1-9 recorded July 2025; tracks 10-12 recorded August 2022
in Masterton, Aotearoa/NZ

about

Track 1 through 9 come from a weird chaotic mid-winter session in Antony’s lounge. It was too cold that day to head out to the garage.
Keyboards and synths played through the stereo, electronic drums (plus a single tom), guitars through tiny practice amps. Everybody playing a bit of everything. All in all a cathartic if somewhat psychotropic celebration of small town shelter.
Tracks 10 through 12 actually come from one of our very first sessions, sometime in 2022. A totally different vibe and perhaps more musical though the attempt at singing together in harmony on the last track was an abject failure. It has a certain charm however….

tracklist

1.	Intro 00:30
2.	Game Trial 02:42
3.	Boom Tick 00:35
4.	Feral VHS 02:25
5.	Fake Equinox 02:03
6.	Orange Posturing 05:28
7.	The Fruit Dilemma 00:31
8.	Another Sad Confused Clown 04:58
9.	Scrub Dance 01:55
10.	Lazy Leanings 03:35
11.	Dry Run 02:06
12.	Asphalt Lament 05:25