Hello everyone
I'm in Canada for the summer, doing some shows and finishing work on the new record.
Its all taking shape. Lots of sketches and ideas that were made in our ocean cottage in Ireland, then experimented with at live shows, and now are finding themselves for a record....
It all starts with an idea
and sometimes that idea has to be killed...(even when you think its the best thing you've done)...that takes a lot of sacrifice and courage...just accept that the original idea was the kernel of the seed's life, it had to be cracked open and then lost, so that the song could be birthed.
eg. Hold onto your Soul started as a weird electro rhythm but once it had birthed the bass,strings,lyrics etc, the rhythm had to go...

Anyway, enough rambling. Here are two rough and unfinished demos for songs that may or may not make it onto the final vinyl. I just thought it would be a nice way of including everyone in the process of making a record...rather than hermit away as I usually do. So have a listen and let me know your thoughts.
Both songs have outros that will have a lyrical part, I just haven't recorded that yet.
The Dissolving is going to have a real dirty old rhodes and a moog when I get to Bill Shanley's studio in Dublin in Sept...for now the fake logic ones with have to do.

Enjoy.


Listen to demos