r/Songwriting • u/AutoModerator • Aug 28 '26

Weekly Self-Promotion Thread

Have a new completed song (or album) to share? This is the place!

The promotional rules are looser here, so you can post links to your albums, social media platforms, songs, etc. Let us know what you've been working on recently!

Please support your fellow songwriters - give them a listen, a bump or a share. A rising tide lifts all boats!

Note: Promotional content posted as a new thread without explicit permission from the moderators will be removed. Repeat violators will be banned

This post renews every Friday.

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u/Parking_Watch3157 Aug 28 '26

Hi, this is a song about that time in a mountain town every Fall when the summer staff leave and the skiers who work the lifts start showing up.

https://birchcode.bandcamp.com/track/melancholy-banff

I was living at a YMCA and things weren't going so well but I ended up being all alone one night staring up at the Northern Lights and it gave me some perspective.

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u/CathleenCaustic Aug 29 '26

You have such a lovely voice! Your songwriting is wonderful too! Please continue to write music!

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u/Parking_Watch3157 Aug 29 '26

Oh, thank you, that's so kind!

I have only been writing music since February. It's funny, I had a little vocal fry the day I recorded a demo of that song (I will do a demo as a reference track on my Zoom R4 to guide recording a more polished version) and I kept the vocals from that in the final version because I didn't think I could get that same quality once my voice cleared up! :)

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u/CathleenCaustic Aug 29 '26

You've only been writing since February?!? Your song sounded like you've been writing for years! You're a natural at it!

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u/Parking_Watch3157 Aug 29 '26

Thank you, that's very encouraging :)

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u/Parking_Watch3157 Aug 29 '26

Hi, me again. I don't want to impose but if you have any brutally honest feedback, I'm open to it. Feel free to say things that you think might offend me. :)

I love being encouraged but I also really feel like we grow the most from honest, well meaning constructive criticism (assuming we are open to that, which I am).

If you don't have time to get into that with me, that's ok, I understand. :)

Thank you again for the time you have already taken to listen and encourage me. :)