We are forreal in the thick of recording our new album...it is wonderful to do this alongside some incredible friends, and we are each gingerly or boldly putting touches on our first full length LP. Here are some details and hints and all kinds of goodies for you to read up on about "When We Awoke Again."

-Ten songs is the goal.
-Two songs, The Discovery and The Sailing Ship, have been restructured and re-recorded for this one....we are thrilled that you can clearly hear the vocals now, and aaron loves having some drum mics... the kick drum can now be heard. no more underwater-sounding drums and vocals to soften tinny or harsh tones. In short, we are capturing some nice, full, and warm tones and not needing so much reverb to make things pretty (reverd means Gverb in the between blue camp. Gverb, awkward snowman setting equaled soupy, echo-ey, watery goodness smothering any sound).
-Matt has named his new song (the super fun one to play live, with the "bum-bum-bum-bum, BUM-BUM-BUM-BUM!!) "Compelling." Thanks for writing a wonderful song, Matt! we love your enthusiasm, sincerity, and passion!
-Songs that are completely done:
1. Hospital Beds
2. Tin Cans Rattling (wherever it beats)
3. Marbled Sky
-Songs that are-so-close-to-being-done-we-could-celebrate!
1. The Discovery
2. The Sailing Ship
3. Compelling
-Songs that have begun to be recorded as of today:
1. Close Your Eyes
-Songs that are cooking in the oven:
1. Wake Up / Andrew's New Song....this is a lovely piano piece that will most certainly close the album. may we wake up from our years of sleep, everyone. if you want to hear a demo of this, head on over to andrew/marevia's myspace.
2. Into a Million Parts....this is a song I have written that I want the band to make sound wonderful. I need a certain Mr. Andrew J. Elder to learn some lyrics about the end of the world and waking up to the essential truth of the Unseen God...I am going for a future-folk sound. This might be an experiment that I hope comes together.
3. The Maloney Bologna Song/The new song in the key of E/The fun song/The "der-der-derdy-der" song....a wonderful piece of joyous music written by aaron and landon...we just need to scrounge up some lyrics. yes, please. :)
4. Driving Alone....this is the backup song if the Maloney Balogna Song doesn't work out. We just don't have the time to record 11 songs (but I think we could pull it off!! ssshhh!!)....this is a very lyric-centric song. It is cathartic in a very good way...in a phrase, God is never so far off to save what tends to fall apart. C# major is a key with lots of tension and chilling beauty, and I can tell that this song would really thrive with some skillful dynamics and the right mood. Andrew and I need to work out some of the words, but we are very good at compromising and working things out by God's grace and patience.
-The album cover I posted about a month ago is an idea of the final design. We are hoping to save up enough to manufacture a package that will have enough room for lyrics to be printed. yup!
-Garageband makes everything sound so satisfying.
-I want a vocoder.
-A song you would only sing to my girl might open the discovery at some of our upcoming shows. hehe!
-Recording guitars for Close Your Eyes on Tuesday....vocal mayhem with friends on Friday.


please bear with me and let me make up some tracklists! this is great fun for me; I am not sure why!
1. Tin Cans Rattling (Wherever it Beats)
2. Close Your Eyes
3. The Discovery
4. Maloney Bologna Song / Driving Alone