Tour de Studio

The band swung by Darcy Beck's studio yesterday - turns out he is the soundman at Lydia's Open Stage, or at least he was when we played there in May. Anyway, a very cool space in the Rumley Building, with a nice setup, some great gear, and a really great sounding acoustic piano (from what I heard on the recordings). Speaking of recordings (albeit in parenthesis), he played us some of his work with the Pinch, Escape Goats, and a few other people he'd worked with. The Pinch covered an Elton John song and the recording - no word of a lie - sounded spot on. The piano sound, the mix levels, it's like the track was lifted right off one of his records. The Anderson Council/Escape Goats/Whatever they're calling themselves these days had some really great sounding stuff, too.

The point of this rambling was that the recordings sounded really good and we would be quite delighted to record with Darcy. Hopefully it'll be sooner rather than later, it would be nice to at least have enough for an EP to bring out with us. But at the same time, we have to make sure we have the songs solid before we go in the studio, so it probably won't be until January since December is a right-off with Christmas and me going to New York and so on.

The consensus (so far, this is nowhere near decided) has been to record This Is The Way Life Grows, Regions & Markers, A Scattershot Genius, Serenade, Overtly Dramatic. If there's time (and doubtless there will be), we'll try and record other tracks we don't have demos for, like Silver City Surf, Death of the Glorious Future, and Sincerest Element. The rest will depend on where the songs are in January and so on. Eventually, we'll rerecord our demos too (like Pinstripe Gin).

That's all for now. Keep watching the skies.