I'm assuming that most of you think that since I haven't given any music news in a while I've just been sitting around drawing comics all day. Not so! I was waiting for all of it to come together so I could drop a bunch of stuff at once...and yeah its coming slow. Here is what I have so far:
New Bass!
Ryan Williams has been practicing with us on new and old stuff and seems like a great fit.
Currently you can see him play in...just about every other band in Denton. At our next show be prepared to look on the stage and go "oh that guy...yeah hes great."
New Album!
All songs have been written and rewritten and arrangements are solid, unfortunately we are having to sit on our hands for a little bit in order to work with Matt Pence again (man behind Albatross) at the the Echolab in Argyle, so you might not hear any new recordings until midsummer.
About the songs!
I went into the songwriting process with a couple of strict rules I made myself follow
- Every song has to be a profile song about a different fictional character.
- because I really love songs from the british invasion that do this (mary anne with the shaky hand, david watts, arthur, shes a rainbow, the list goes on...)
- Every song has to introduce and include the main character of the following song there by connecting the two characters in someway.
- because I love Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam
and then...
- Every song title is to be the characters name
- Every name begins with the letter "A"
- All names/songs/tracks are in alphabetical order
this all accidently resulted in...
- each new song/character developing an over all narrative and theme for the album.
Giving myself this kind of structure really caused me to push myself creatively and not settle for something I would have normally written because sometimes when you have all the colors in the world to work with, everything just turns out brown. Am I always going to write and release concept albums that need to be explained with bullet points? Nah. I just felt like it with this one.
oh, it will be called: CLASSIC CREEPS
3 comments:
Great video. Did you know the name of that song is Perfidia?
Mmmmm, great news Eric! Can't wait to hear new songs.
By the way, do you still plan on releasing Albatross on vinyl? I'd still love to help you do it, jsut so you know. So give me a sign if you're still interested.
Arnaud from Belgium
wow that really is a lovely video. your concept is exciting!
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