As I tend to do when I am procrastinating have free time, CW and I have been busy recently recording some new material. For those of you who do not know, CW and I played together in a band in high school. You can check out that band’s very tacky myspace page here. Since then, CW and I have recorded a few things off and on, and last week we finished a session at his house in Austin.
I have just mixed and mastered the first of one of those songs, called Weak. You can listen to it here at our other myspace page. And yes, I am embarrassed to say that I have not even just one, but two myspace pages. Warning to sensitive listeners, the song is pretty dark and contains two instances of, uhm, explicit language.
The story behind the song is pretty neat, however. Last summer (when I was in Boston), CW and I started to email song ideas back and forth to each other, and we would work on each others’ stuff. At the time, I was working on some electronica stuff, and he was mainly doing acoustic stuff. We weren’t really sure how to collaborate since our two genres were so different, but then we had this idea: recording a double EP, where one side is acoustic/folk and the other electronica/pop. The key was that the middle song would be a transition from one genre to the other, IE start out acoustic and switch to electronica midstream. Weak ended up being that song. After letting it percolate over the summer and fall, we finally settled on an arrangement we both liked during Christmas break, but didn’t get around to recording everything until last week. But the track is done—one year in the making! Hope you like it, take a listen, leave a comment, tell me what you think. I’ll hopefully finish mixing/mastering the other four or five songs we have and put them up before I leave later this month.
