A couple of weeks ago I played my wife the sketches and material I've generated for the album so far.  She was really happy with it because she said I'd "gone back to that lush, sexy, electronic sound" that I'd started with.  Seeing as she seems to like it so much, I thought I'd post some of the stuff she's talking about.

When I first sat down and started recording songs back in Switzerland in 2003, these are the kinds of songs I was producing.  When I released my first album in 2004, I'd reworked some of them into a more commercial-sounding form, which, in hindsight, wasn't a particularly good idea.  I also excluded the darker stuff as it didn't fit with the album.  Again, not a great idea.  As such, none of these tracks have seen the light of day. 

Coming back to this style now, which is the direction that Melbourne Beauty is heading in, I feel like myself again.  Sworn In On A Stack Of Dictionaries was written for a group of people that I hadn't met.  This electronic stuff is written for me.

Wanted_Ad.mp3 (6.9 MB)

Bad_Memories_(Orginal_Mellotronic_Mix).mp3 (5.5 MB)

Smoke_&_Mirrors_(Scary_Monsters_Mix).mp3 (6.9 MB)

Crawling_Backward.mp3 (5.5 MB)