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Uboa - You Did This To Me (Impossible Light B-Side)
🕑 Added 2025-05-29 15:30:32 +0000 UTC
Hey! Here is a song rejected from the final version of Impossible Light, "You Did This to Me". Sadly I don't think a complete version of this song will see the light of day due to no longer being on speaking terms or contact with the mixing engineer / co-producer of that record, who has all the stems. So this is the only remnant of her mix I have left, - only in mp3 - and it is indeed an incredible mix. Since I have no access to the stems, likely indefinitely - any B-side record of Impossible Light is likely not going to happen.
Originally made around the same time as all the other songs of impossible light in 2017, this one never finished as I didn't know where to go with it, however it does feel somewhat complete as it is. The only lyric is "you did this to me". It of course alludes to being mistreated. It features the traditional uboa koto/zither synth, ukelele and a big heavy doom metal section in drop F. Since I had no ending, I added some brown noise in the end as a fade out which somehow fits. Likewise, it was originally going to have some additional screams in the heavy section. Maybe one day I'll have a finished variant - but I doubt I can do as good of a mixing job as Blood of a Pomegranate. Plus, I kinda want to move on. Impossible Light was a nightmare to make, and came at a big cost to my mental and physical health. But this song is probably my favourite of the several unreleased tracks from the era, and by far the most complete.
Also, above is some unused cover art for a sleeve vinyl - illustration by the incredible Quartzvii, and photoshop editing by me. It was rejected as a front cover in favour of something more recognisably uboa (specifically, the typography and photo). We ended up using it for the inside art and longsleeve. Still, Vii is a lovely human and such a talented artist, and it's an actual crime their work is not more well known, so please check out their work and buy a print/shirt of theirs!
Note: I only had a mp3 remaining to remaster. So even the WAV might have some very, very subtle mp3 compression artefacts, which I doubt any of you will notice.
Comments
helen
This is so beautiful- the music and the art both. Thank you for sharing 💕
Jean Marquier
It's an incredible addition to an already stunning album. Thank you so much for sharing this b-side with us. The guitar riffs are so crushing it's unbelievable.
