Studio Journal: And (The Writing) Don’t Stop
We’re still not technically in the studio yet, but most people would agree that what we’re doing right now could be considered “pre-production,” so I’m firing up the old “Studio Journal” category again.
So far we’ve been just been writing. We record everything we do, so we can go back and listen and make notes about where Mike fucks up so we can give him shit about it. It gives us something to do besides writing the next great American rock album of all time. We’re up to somewhere around 9-14 new songs, depending on how you define “new” and “finished.”
Actually none of them are really finished (even the ones we’ve played live already), but they’re getting pretty close. As you can see in the following photo, we have a lot of stuff written up on the big board.
New songs. Old songs. Arrangement ideas. It’s all there. You can practically hear the new album just by looking at this photo. Here’s another shot of the arrangement board for a new song called “Targets on the Range”:
That’s some groundbreaking shit right there. A, B, A, B, then an OUTRO! In the middle of the goddamn song! An OUTRO! I won’t even tell you what’s crossed out there either. You might die just from hearing about it. When you finally hear the actual song you’ll shit your pants either way, but just be thankful we didn’t leave what we had in there. It most certainly would have killed you all.
There’s no telling when or where this new material might appear. Not exactly the news you want to hear, I know. We’re planning on being in the studio over the summer. That may actually happen sooner or later than we’ve planned. You know how it goes.
For now (and in case you can’t read Mike’s sloppy handwriting in the photos), here’s a pretty-much-up-to-date list of new song titles:
- Instructions: How To Die
- Greenlight
- Gods & Profits
- Shine
- One More Time
- Speaking in Code
- Novelty
- Over Medication
- Easier Said Than Done
- Targets on the Range
- Pancake Day
- I Told You I Was Sick
- 3 P’s
- Hershey Squirt
Until next time, I’ll leave you with a couple more photos taken at a recent rehearsal. You can view the full set here.
Hey, at least Mike counted to 10 okay. Progress is the name of the game.
Seriously, it’s called ‘Progress’ by Milton Bradley.
Don’t give him too much credit. His watch is also a calculator (seriously).
sweet… can’t wait to hear some new stuff, it’s been way too long..
This needs a disclaimer. I had to stop reading about halfway through and start again later because I was afraid my head might explode from the insane amount of awesome contained in this update.
sooo, i was talking to a little bird in “lutherville” yesterday and he mentioned that there is a new album in the works! congrats guys- really looking forward to hearing new music! -s
PS- the stick bugs miss you.
And we miss the stick bugs. We don’t really know what the plan is yet but we might want to use that awesome drum room of yours again.