As you may aleady know, we've been recording the "instrumenty" bits for the new Infadels record over the past few days and so far, so swell.
To do this, we have moved from our dark, damp hovel of a home to a lovely, shiny (but not too expensive) studio that exists precisely ten foot to the right of us.
The vibe is high and we are having fun, this time under the watchful eye of Mr. Jon Gray with whom we last worked with on "Jagger '67" back when we were all four years old. He is applying his skills in the black arts and satanistic alchamy to great effect on this record. Our very own Matt heads up the production and together it is all sounding very fun indeed.
If "We Are Not The Infadels" was a night-time record and "Universe In Reverse" was the morning after, then this album is the following night where we've negated sleep, gone back out clubbing and carried on drinking.
Speaking of which, we were all treated to watching Wag enjoy his FIRST CUP OF COFFEE OF ALL TIME. Quite something to watch I can tell you. Initially he complained that it was too warm "that'll be the hot water they put in it I guess", then followed a rapid increase in speech married with a loss of cohesive diction. Then came the demand that all songs be at 250bpm from now on.
We'll have him on the double-shot espressos tomorrow...
On the recording side, I'd say we got about three tunes in the bag.
We started with "Out Of The Black Sky", a very lo-fi, very spacey tune that sits between "Murder That Sound" and "Stories From The Bar" from album one. It's one of my faves and i'm a little gutted we didn't get the chance to play it out on our mini Dutch tour last month. I think it may be one of the few tunes with any guitars, Matty pulling out some great Rat-at-at style playing together with a HUGE keyboard riff whilst elephant samples scream and Bnann sings "good feelings in hard times, we're not facing tribulations"
Anyway, job done.
Next up was "Violent Oblivion", a "Brandon Vegas" for 2010. We played this live in an early form recently and after these recordings it will be back in the world of production so Matt can add some more wizz, pops and bangs. When it's finished it will make "Dark and Long" by Underworld sound like the fucking Crazy Frog. In my dreams I'm smashing a ten foot high solid gold dustbin to this tune. Um...I think you get the idea.
And then in the small hours of the morning we finished with "We Get Along", a tune quite unlike anything we've ever done. Part M.I.A. part Knife I guess but it's quite a moment, and we were getting some lovely vibesy reactions from people when we played it live. The sub-bass in it is very serious indeed, I'm not sure the studio speakers will ever be the same again (sorry!)
Today we attempt another five tunes or something crazy. This may take more than a cup of coffee to get through...
Love and hugs
Richie XXX
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