Hear ‘Please’ a track that probably won’t feature on our album. We turned it into part four of the making of The Middle.
Gotye remix
We’ve been tracking and mixing for around three months now and have around five or six tracks near finished. Sounding pretty good. With a moment to spare and a break from Circle desperately needed, we had a go at mixing Wally. Here’s the result:
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Making the Middle
We’re doing our best to document the making of the album. The idea is no more documentary style videos and instead a making of series with some proper music videos. Here’s part one.
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The Middle
Tracking, producing and mixing the Middle in lots of 3-5 songs. It’s going well although nothing is quite finished. We have about 20 songs and if we finish the first five in the next three weeks, we’ll start getting them out to people for things like video ideas, guest musicians and so on. We’re thinking about guest vocalists, trumpets and other horns and maybe a harp. We’re also documenting the progress so that we can share it as it happens. Radi was tracking piano at 4:30am this morning but sadly no one was around to video that.
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Intent is King
For weeks we’ve been thinking about the angle and the importance of intent behind this record. The image here is the mood board we’ve been working on meant to set the mood behind the visual components which we want to have feed into the music and vice versa.
Grandaddy Approach
Jason Lytle you used to do this thing with every new Grandaddy record where he’d buy new pedals, synths, guitars and toys and just play with them for weeks and months during the process of writing new material. Sounds and noises sometimes write songs. We haven’t had too much money to spend lately so as much as we’d love to go out and buy new gear we’ll have to take the Grandaddy Approach to a whole new level. This album is going to be exploring texture and all the elements that we think add and subtract to texture. Space, size, time and their opposites. It’s not so much that it will be experimental but rather intent will play a very big roll in how we approach the recording sessions. We’ll string our Uke with steel and our banjo with nylon, we’ll punch holes in our speakers and record parts in the back of the van. We’ll send sine waves out into space and back again only to re-amp and re-sizzle the fuck out of them. But it won’t be for the hell of it. Anyway, that’s the plan and while there’s a heap more we have to say about it, it’ll have to wait for now.
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Site
We’ve had a heap of visitors lately all thanks to the covers we’ve been doing and we’re a little embarrassed that the site is so shitty. So… we’re getting off our butts and redesigning the site. Monday Records are doing the same thing so there must be something in the air. In the meantime we apologize for the shitty state of the current site.
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