dear reader,
good evening. i hope you’re someplace warm. christmas must be coming because it sure is cold.
folks, we are seven days away. i’m at the computer with my sushi, just getting ready to go do mastering revisions with my boy adrian morgan in brooklyn, and i can’t wait to have the album in my hot little hands. or freezing cold hands, as it were.
thanks for your comments! as you’ve probably guessed, this is the first sharing-of-demos post. i’m going to try and do one post with demos every day until the 11th. comments, as always, are welcome.
(all alone and working hard on my) background: most of the songs on “short films on self-control” came from a couple of miniature albums of demo songs i made here at home for intraband use. the first one had seven songs on it, five of which ended up on this record, and was called “working titles.”
these are deeply casual recordings. metronomes, mic popping, morning voice and incidental sound are as much a part of the music as anything. (uh… sorry?) the first two tracks of “working titles” were written in the midst of a lot of listening to old records.
here they are. happy tuesday.