I’ll be the first to admit it – I suck at teaser posts.
I was going to post the previous announcement, then the album cover the next day, and all that.
My problem is a simple one: I get so freaking excited about this thing, I can’t hold back.
What you’ll be listening to is the product of the last nine years. I’ve written a ton, and recorded a large handful of it. I used to think that this stuff was unusably flawed. The songs that I still like are the ones with mistakes in my face.
The same is true of music I listen to. The perfectly produced and performed stuff, like the Postal Service, always fades out over time in favor of things like Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted or Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand, that revel in error and the musicianship of actual humans.
In short, this record is a document testifying to the fact that I write what I’m interested in hearing. I hope you’ll be interested in it, too.
Nine Songs will be released tomorrow, but the whole thing’s up and ready for streaming at BandCamp right now. Tomorrow, you can download or buy.
Maybe you noticed that my All Songs (Re)Considered project fizzled out as soon as I found a new job. Maybe you didn’t. You’re not my full-time guardian. You’re not required to pay attention. You have better things to do (aren’t you late for that meeting?).
That doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on music, just that I haven’t found the time to do that and post and everything. Pressure, people. Pressure.
Regardless, thanks to a friend of mine making a recommendation to his friend, and a resulting phone call from that tangential friend, I found myself throwing together a sampler of my music earlier this week.
And I liked what I came up with.
“Nine Songs,” my first full-length (if you consider 27 minutes, about the length of Weezer’s Blue Album, full-length) will be available for sale and download this coming Tuesday. It features the re-imagined “Demon Song,” along with some new stuff, and some stuff you may recognize if you’ve known me more than a year.
I’m proud of what I’ve put together, even if I haven’t been conscious of its construction over the last eight years.
Watch over the next few days, and I’ll throw up more bits of information as they become available.
And while you wait for that, entertain yourself with a song I wrote and recorded today – Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you “Shoot the Bartender.”
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