As Charles Bronson used to say, if you want something done right, do it yourself. Quite a few musicians are taking these words to heart, composing records, indeed entire repertoires, all by their lonesome; the increasing sophistication of recording software, coupled with the now-ubiquitous DIY aesthetic being taken to its technical limits, has resulted in a level of autonomy unprecedented in popular music. This is not to say that songs composed by one person... more ›