Someone Else.

***Someone Else.*** is the fourth released album by Moes Haven. Spotify lists a release date of June 3, 2005, Matt Farley's 27th birthday. It has 14 tracks and a runtime of 35:33. The tagline for the album on CDBaby is "The saddest album ever recorded."

## Recording

The album is primarily a solo Matt Farley production with piano-and-vocals compositions, though Tom Scalzo helped write "Gord's Gold is All I Have in Life," and Pete Peterson recorded some vocals.

Farley recorded the album at his apartment on Hanover Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. Unlike other early Moes Haven albums, it does not contain older recordings and thus sounds more cohesive as a whole. Petersen's vocals were recorded by mailing tapes to and from California, where he was living at the time.

The album cover features Farley sitting in a blanket fort, which appears to be a metaphor for the fears of growing up, facing the world, and both simultaneously reflecting on his youth and his potential futures. The album title contains a period at the end, stylized as a sentence, and is a response to the album title *If Not Us, Who?*, which was completed and set for release around the same time, but was released in 2007.

The final track "Cloistered II" is a reference to an unreleased Moes Haven tune by Tom Scalzo called "Cloistered".

The Moes Haven compilation album *It Takes a Lot of Guts!* (2009) contains one track from this album, "Broken Hearted is a Nice Way to Be". As of July 2019, the "Official Motern Media Playlist" on Spotify contains the song "Sped-Up Credits" from this album. The title of that song is a reference to the practice of TV stations accelerating the pace of the credits when screening a movie.

Farley reviewed this album in depth on MMIP #26 (January 25, 2015).

## Reception

The album received a favorable review by *The Noise* (Boston) in their December 2005 issue:

> In general, concept albums just don’t work for me. This one’s different though, in more ways than one. First of all, the concept itself is very different. Picture, if you will, a social misfit, a guy who’s too shy and withdrawn to talk to the girl of his dreams, or pretty much anyone else; who doesn’t open his apartment door because he knows it’s the landlord and he owes a couple months’ back rent; who has listened to Gordon Lightfoot’s Gord’s Gold album so many times he doesn’t even hear it anymore, it’s just become part of the background noise of his life. Then imagine that he has built himself a fort out of blankets draped over his kitchen chairs and table, and has resolved to stay under there at least long enough to review all the regrets and missed opportunities of his pitiful life. “It’s sad, so very sad. But it’s funny, too, because the singer knows how pathetic he is.” That’s how the artist describes it in the liner notes, which consist of a letter to “Pete and Tom,” whoever they are, asking for advice on track sequence. What this amounts to is really a home recorded demo, with minimalist instrumentation and almost no production. But the songs are so beautiful and well-crafted that it’s fine just the way it is. (Brian Mosher)
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## See also

* MOES HAVEN Someone Else (review), *The Noise* (Boston)

*Out With the Old* (2004) • *Dislocated Songs* (2004) • *Svetlana* (2005) • ***Someone Else.*** (2005) • *Explorations in Madness* (2005) • *Moe's Haven* (2005) • *Sir Paul Made Ram. We Made This.* (2005) • *Down With Memories* (2005) • *January* (2006) • *February: From the Bayou to the Barnyard and Back* (2006) • *March: of the Aliens* (2006) • *April: What A Cruel Month* (2006) • *May: I Buy You A Sandwich?* (2006) • *June* (2006) • *July: In The Sun With Me?* (2006) • *August: of Temporal Inconsistency* (2006) • *September: In Manchvegas* (2006) • *(SH)OC(K)TOBER* (2006) • *November the Tar!* (2006) • *December* (2007) • *If Not Us, Who?* (2007) • *This is My Millennium* (2008) • *Stromboli’s Alarm Clock* (2010) • *Metal Detector Maniac* (2022) • *(Several Supreme Beings Told Us To Make This) One Last Album* (2023)
**Compilations**: *Victory is Ours! (For Now)* (2007) • *It Takes a Lot of Guts!* (2009)
**Songs from Deep in the Vault (1996 - 2010)**: *Vol. 1* (2013) • *Vol. 2* (2017) • *Vol. 3* (2017) • *Unheralded Origins of Genius* (2021)

## References

1. ↑ MOES HAVEN Someone Else (review), *The Noise* (December 2005)