So I'm going to do my best to make old news seem as new as possible, and also deliver new news. News.
We've seen a lot of this question: "When will the record be done?" aka "When will we see a full length?!", "When are you guys going to get new songs?", and of course, "What the *@&^ is going on?!!!"
Ok. We have 13 tracks we are happy with. We want badly to deliver a record of 13 songs to you in a world of 10 song records, but it may be 10, 11, or 12 songs. It depends on a few different things -- but in the end our main goal is to deliver to you what we feel is the best product, or in other terms, the most enjoyable to listen to record we can give you with these songs.
We have basically fully mixed 12 of these at this point. Some minor tweaks in the works for those, but all in all we are happy with the way they sound. We have one more song to mix which we have not really even begun to tackle yet.
After we mix, we'll shoot them off to mastering.
We're currently in the process of creating our artwork... I have to keep this pretty hush hush for now but I can tell you we're working with a very talented artist and the artwork is looking AMAZING. It's really cool, and we're excited about it. We have somewhere around 10 panels of art in the works right now, at varying degrees of doneness (is that a word? I hope so, it's fun to say).
Other things on the table are:
Naming songs (we have maybe 3-4 songs that are in dire need of new names)
Sequencing the record (giving us all a headache due to the diversity of the tracks -- it seems this will be a very delicate process)
Naming the album (have a couple of maybes!)
Not driving ourselves insane (too late)
So, that's where we are with that.
We've been working pretty diligently on this album since we started recording in April... so 7 months later we're getting pretty close but also are getting really drained. That being the case, you likely will not see any new shows added until we wrap this up -- or at least very few. Sorry! When we come back to it we'll be going into touring mode full force, and will have a bunch of new songs to play you..
Last but certainly not least, we're going to be helping our friends at
Propllerhead (http://www.propellerheads.se/) launch their new product, "Record". It seems like it's a pretty awesome home-recording option, so we're excited to start experimenting with it. Look forward to some videos/blogs/tweets of us documenting our experience getting cozy with this software...
Oh, and Suzie has been cheating on us with a band/artist many of you probably know well. So be on the lookout for her gorgeous voice SOMEWHERE ELSE...
-Jesse
P.S. for some reason myspace no longer is letting me choose the music I'm listening to, but I'm listening to
Good Old War