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This is about a couple of things:
It is an old apartment wall that has seen the embraces and arguments of a dozen tenants and faded under the sunshine of a thousand mornings.- John Crossingham on the Raising the Fawn album that took two years to release.
While "Mark It Zero" was simply something we wanted to do, the new album was that and something entirely more substantial. We owed it to ourselves to make something that could come as close as possible to capturing the connections that evolved over the past two years. Of course The Early was about making good music but in my mind that was never the primary idea or concern. Like a good friend the memorable conversations and events are definitely present. But it's the unspoken and unexplainable pull that underlies friendship, that makes us want to be close; that is what this was all about. I can easily say that the most important thing I took from this experience is the truth that playing music isn't just about putting the right combination of pitches together or writing the catchiest hooks, but it's about making those ideas explode and transcend the act of simply playing. Most of the best music was made in the basement never to be heard again by anyone else. And I suppose that's why I am writing this now. It's impossible to relive these moments, but like any true love I am sure it will always be floating somewhere.
It's funny sitting here now and thinking, "it happened". And it's probably because only in my wildest dreams I thought this could happen and I guess in my wildest dreams I forgot about the fact that it would have to end. But just in the same way it was able to become a reality, to the very end I was so lucky. And that's the best part of this whole thing. It ended just as it began.
It is an old apartment wall that has seen the embraces and arguments of a dozen tenants and faded under the sunshine of a thousand mornings.- John Crossingham on the Raising the Fawn album that took two years to release.
While "Mark It Zero" was simply something we wanted to do, the new album was that and something entirely more substantial. We owed it to ourselves to make something that could come as close as possible to capturing the connections that evolved over the past two years. Of course The Early was about making good music but in my mind that was never the primary idea or concern. Like a good friend the memorable conversations and events are definitely present. But it's the unspoken and unexplainable pull that underlies friendship, that makes us want to be close; that is what this was all about. I can easily say that the most important thing I took from this experience is the truth that playing music isn't just about putting the right combination of pitches together or writing the catchiest hooks, but it's about making those ideas explode and transcend the act of simply playing. Most of the best music was made in the basement never to be heard again by anyone else. And I suppose that's why I am writing this now. It's impossible to relive these moments, but like any true love I am sure it will always be floating somewhere.
It's funny sitting here now and thinking, "it happened". And it's probably because only in my wildest dreams I thought this could happen and I guess in my wildest dreams I forgot about the fact that it would have to end. But just in the same way it was able to become a reality, to the very end I was so lucky. And that's the best part of this whole thing. It ended just as it began.