Concrete Peninsula Newsletter #9

This newsletter compiles links to all the posts created and published on the Concrete Peninsula website within the last month, September 15-October 12, 2025.

This newsletter finds us one month into the future instead of one week. I wish I could say I planned this schedule, but it's just kind of how things worked out. Unsure if updates will go back to weekly or continue to drift. Either way, I appreciate the platform and the ability to share my thoughts.

There is an exclusive music focus in this update, as I shared 4 acoustic demos by my solo (for now) project Heapings and an album review/notification for the new Street Eaters slab. I'll group the updates by my music and other people's music instead of straight chronological, just for fun.

Heapings acoustic demos: these are songs I'm working on with strict repetition considerations in mind. Each song is attempting to focus on one guitar riff/pattern and contain no changes at all. It is a rewarding exercise and references all great repetitive music that means so much to me, most strongly the massive band Lungfish. These are songs I'd like to transform into a full band someday, but can't handle any more scheduling in my life right now, so it'll be just me for now:

Heapings Acoustic Demo 1

A music writing project based upon repetition, each song only contains 1 riff and no changes. Teaching myself patience and demolishing my comfort zone of frenetic attack music. Also, my favorite music writing is collaborative, so pushing against that grain and solo writing on these. I have hopes to turn

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Heapings Acoustic Demos 2, 3 and 4

The repetitions continue, this time capturing 3 songs. Geosynchronous Drain Plastic staring eyes And amputated tearducts The excavator pulling Punched out computer tape Coded suppressed emotions A faulty psuedo cosmos A drain A drain A drain A drain A geosynchronous drain Malignant design If i could just insert A reality

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Next, I shared a new album by a band I've loved for many years, Street Eaters:

Street Eaters - Opaque

Street Eaters has been one of my favorite bands since sometime in 2011 when my band Blast & the Detergents randomly and fortunately played a show with them in a basement of the legendary house Brown Town in Athens, Ohio when we were both on tour. This was an especially cursed

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This has concluded Concrete Peninsula Newsletter #9.