For anyone that's interested, I thought I'd start to talk about the songs from our forthcoming album THE BLACK BOOK OF THE UNIVERSE. It's due for release next week (hopefully - at the moment there's a backup at the pressing plant). The album is definitely NOT contemporary, ha ha.
HOLD YOUR HORSES:
This is the second song i wrote for the album. It was written in my former apartment on a day off. I was just sitting on the couch listening to sounds reaching me from other apartments, the background hum of traffic etc etc. That started me off. I really wanted to encapsulate the feeling of solidarity I was feeling - being shut of from everyone else - in this case being a solo artist for the first time without having a band or management or record label - basically being right back at the point i was when I was 18 and first started out in bands.
I got the first half of the song pretty easily - just an acoustic ditty, but when i got to the end of the second chorus i realised that the song needed to go somewhere else. I'd been listening to a lot of early Genesis which completely threw the rule book of songwriting out the window, and i decided to just fuck it up and go wherever my mind took me. When i'd finished the thing i liked most about the entire song is that it just lurched from this quasi-medieval jaunt into a rock opera esque number. At first it seemed a bit too weird. but after repeated listens it really grew on me.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
