Our new song started out sounding a little country, especially after Sahara added some twangy vocals. Then Rob put in every guitar rock cliché he could think of. We’re pretty happy with how this one turned out – we’re learning some new production tricks and starting to get this living-room recording down. Poorhouse is about moving into an apartment that is basically falling apart, and how we’ve tried to make the best of it.
We’re all sensitive people. Here’s a more sensitive version of our wall-of-sound-newest-song, Happiness Machine.
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. So sick today. However, it provided the opportunity for doing two new things. First, sinus rinse. Frightening, drowning sensation, but outcome was good if a little messy. Likewise, this new song …
The project files for Ballad of Blood Eye & Sparkles are available for free download for all you music nerds out there that want to mess around with MIDI and the raw audio to create something new with what we’ve done. All the raw vocal tracks are in the package, as well as the Logic Studio file with settings intact, and a Propellerheads Reason file with the synthesizer instrument racks we have put together.