Penguin Prison - Something I'm Not

Penguin Prison, someone we covered here a couple of months ago, represents everything we stand for here at Binary. From our small beginnings in late 2007, Binary has always worshiped at the shrine of 'the song'. In our minds, nothing beats great songwriting. Fads pass. 'Sounds' and production methods shift and change and disappear. What never dies is a great song. As we started to sign artists to our own roster, this was the rule we always came back to. Yes, they SOUND good, but do they write great songs?

My personal test is always... could this song be taken out of context and covered with an acoustic guitar and still work? If it can't, then Im sorry... somethings missing. Heard some of the amazing covers of Daft Punk songs off of Discovery? Yes... This is why that album is so good. Those guys understand great songwriting.

So this brings us to Penguin Prison, and act that would fit well within our Binary family. Taking clean, sharp electronic production, and applying it to great songwriting. His latest offering, Something I'm Not, may be his best song to date. It's been in my 'Go-To' playlist for quite a while now, and while we're late bringing it to you, this song deserves to be on this blog. Its just the right fit.


Penguin Prison - Something I'm Not
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Dealing with crazy people can be pretty tough sometimes. Sometimes we become 'something we're not'. You exit your skin and just do things that you can't explain. Everyone gets that way. Maybe its your girlfriend, wild eyed, makeup streaked, screaming at you at 4am. Maybe its your best friend, telling you things you could never imagine him saying... Or maybe its you, locking eyes with someone across the room. And all of a sudden nothing else matters. You'll become something, anything, to get them.


This song puts me right there. In the nether regions of space and time. Those 3am moments when the world doesn't even seem to exist. Don't you feel this way sometimes? It's as if whats going on right here and now will just disappear tomorrow. Actual life becomes a dream, and people just aren't the same they were just a few hours ago.

Eyes pierce through fog. The brief flash of a touch of skin on skin creates a frenzy.

This song just puts me there... Its entrancing, thick and foggy...

Whether its someone just stepping outside of their heads and going crazy. You've seen it. Maybe its been you. This song is that soundtrack. You might not be making any sense. Shit, I don't think I'm making much sense writing it. But that feels like this was the song's aim.

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