Get Dressed Up in Fashion After Dark
My Latest Single is an Industrialized Disco Rocker Anthem of Libertinism with an Absolutely Insane Guitar Solo
While the Fashion After Dark album project didn’t satisfy my artistic desires, it wasn’t for a lack of strong songs. Four of them, including the title track, ride high. I’m currently shining up each one through varying combinations of rerecording and remixing. First up is the song “Fashion After Dark” itself. Aside from recording an additional vocal part for the chorus, this version is a drastic remix of the album track. It’s Extreme Makeover: Music Edition. I’m like the Ty Pennington of music. All jokes aside… Check out the improved “Fashion After Dark” below as well as on Minds and YouTube. The lyrics are available to read on my website.
Everything about this song has come together. Its haunting melodies and Eurotrash disco groove enhanced by the louder drums, distorted bassline, and shorter runtime that jettisons the droning synths and excessive audio sample that bogged down the album version. There’s more of an industrial feel this time along with a vibe of 2000s crunk. The lyrics are some of my best. Heavily inspired by 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade with references to J.G. Ballard’s Crash and the song “Fuck That Booty” by the late great Wendy O Williams. Do I know how to pick influences or what?
But the song’s pièce de résistance is its guitar solo. Two minutes of jagged manic shred that rejects polish in favor of raw energy. This was something I improvised after my first attempt at recording a solo, a tastier and more polished affair, fell flat. It’s guitar antiheroism coming from someplace real and spitting in the face of what guitar playing has largely become these days: A bunch of guitar bros on social media trying to outsweep one another on the most expensive gear they could finance. Fuck that. I want to be dangerous and exciting.
I loved it! I would love to be one of your warm leatherettes in the nude! 💋💋💋
Sexy, naughty, and dangerous! 😝This song is amazing, Stefan! The disco groove, 🪩excellent guitar solo, 🎸and naughty lyrics along with your raspy sexy voice make it have a adventurous, exciting, and dangerous vibe!
Loved it! 🎸😝🔥💋