We recently completed live demoing with Chris Morgan and i'm happy to announce that ten brand new tracks were successfully committed to tape. It should really have been eleven, but the track 'Histrionics' had a few guitar and drum issues we didn't notice when tracking initially, but by the time it came to overdubbing a couple of the vocals it was pretty obvious that a few things weren't exactly right. It's totally cool though, the song is absolutely salvageable, i personally think we just need to write a totally new arrangement for the verses. The chorus is gonna be one of the very, very 'biggest' on the record, so none of us are prepared to drop it like a stone just because of a relatively minor hitch rearing it's head in pre-production.
We also didn't have time to track a brand new song we're all incredibly stoked about that was written just last week. It's a super fast, super traditional punk rock song, built around a riff that i've been trying and toiling with for the better part of a year to write something around. It currently sounds like tearing Smoke Or Fire (circa 'This Sinking Ship') to these ears, but when i get some lyrics and melodies in place i'm sure it'll sound more like 'us' by the time we have to record the album. Which brings me rather neatly onto my next point...
We are booked in with Todd Campbell from the 7th to the 15th of September to lay down album #2. Can't fucking wait.
As it stands, we will be taking twelve songs into the session, but i have absolutely no idea how many will end up on the record and how many (if any at all) will end up as b-sides or comp tracks. In an ideal world i'd like all twelve on there, our first record only had nine tracks so i personally think we're due a considerably longer one this time round!
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