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The Basement Recordings

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Released
  
August 26, 2011

Length
  
55:28

The Basement Recordings (2011)
  
Skipping Stone (2012)

Release date
  
26 August 2011

Recorded
  
2005–09

Producer
  
Brendan Johnson

Artist
  
Alexz Johnson

Label
  
Striker James Studios

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The Basement Recordings (2011)
  
The Basement Recordings II (2012)

Genres
  
Pop music, Alternative rock, Folk music, World music, Pop rock

The Basement Recordings is a demo release by Canadian singer-songwriter Alexz Johnson and her brother, Brendan Johnson. It was digitally released on August 26, 2011.

Contents

Writing and development

The Basement Recordings consists of Johnson's early recordings, some of which were later re-recorded and to be included on her cancelled 2008 debut album by Epic Records, Weight. On www.thebasementrecordings.com there is the following statement by Alexz Johnson: "My brother Brendan and I have decided to release to you the beginnings of it all. To us, these songs challenged our songwriting abilities, they came to find their own sound, they landed us record deals and they still feel like shadows of our growth as artists. The only thing they didn't get was a proper release. It's time to let them go." Track previews were gradually made available on the official website for the EP.

Track listing

Songs included on the album are mainly written by Alexz and Brendan. Three of the tracks ("That Girl", "Skin", "I Just Wanted Your Love") were written for Alexz's previous show Instant Star; three were re-recorded for Alexz's first studio album Voodoo ("Taker", "The Affair (Mr. Jones)", "L.A. Made Me") and later remixed by the Demolition Crew and re-released on Reloaded; "Spin" is an unreleased track previously leaked on the web in low quality; the other seven tracks were demos of songs that were to be included in Alexz's unreleased first album by Epic Records. The bonus track "Running Back" was added to the official track list on August 16, 2011; it has been partially leaked to the web years ago. The track listing for the album is the following:

  1. "That Girl"
  2. "Skin"
  3. "Chicago"
  4. "Running with the Devil"
  5. "Taker"
  6. "Swallowed"
  7. "Saving the Train"
  8. "Lost & Found"
  9. "The Affair (Mr. Jones)"
  10. "Easy Ain't Sleazy"
  11. "Spin"
  12. "I Just Wanted Your Love"
  13. "L.A. Made Me"
  14. "Weight"
  15. "Running Back" (bonus track)

Sequel

On Christmas Day 2011 Alexz Johnson confirmed via her Twitter account that there would be a sequel to The Basement Recordings, entitled The Basement Recordings II and that it will probably contain a track called "Shianne". The album was released on May 1, 2012.

Songs

1That Girl3:16
2Skin3:04
3Chicago4:04

References

The Basement Recordings Wikipedia
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