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it has taken even longer than the last two EPs, but at long last i offer you my latest musical endeavour, we have lost contact.

i won't get into a big discussion about it right now; i think i have already mostly summed it up in a previous entry anyway. suffice to say that it is a companion piece to the first two EPs i released this year, the ( Read more... )

i just wanted to say, i found a leak advance of the new okkervil river album, the stand ins, and WOW. zowee. the perfect companion to the stage names.

more on that an other stuff later (including a really weird dream i had last night; remind me later to detail that more thoroughly, lest i forget).

the album is done. finito. hot off the presses, hot mixes. very little mastering was done. really only in the form of pre-mastering the mixes as i progressed. and a little compression in the overall render. i'm not a huge fan of post-production, can you tell? i polished off the mixes (and even laid down some last minute bass tracks) this ( Read more... )

so if all goes according to plan, i will be uploading the new album this evening.

in other news, i wish i could hibernate through this season.

yeah, i gave up on nanowrimo. around mid-way through the month. i got a little over 20,000 words written. oh well. it was a good first try, and that's more words than i've ever written as one body of work. so maybe it'll see the light of day one day, just for the fun of it ( Read more... )

well i did it. i got a little inspiration this weekend, and laid out the composition and arrangement for the final song for the new album. i recorded it today, and it sounds so nice i don't think i even have that much mixing left to do on it. i wish all my songs got recorded with so little effort. so all ten songs are now in a state of near ( Read more... )

apologies for not writing in awhile, things have been hectic, and real life has preoccupied much of my time, leaving less-than-usual procrastination time for internet dawdling.

news, in a nutshell:

• i've been really ichy flu-bug sick since saturday night, and only felt [barely] well enough to head back to work today. so that made life even more ( Read more... )