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- Down Here
- Make It Alright
- Real
- Peace Or Passion
- Like This
- Gods At 12 Paces
- Let It Be
- The Need
- Under The Gun
- The Addict
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Album History:
Having completed the Out Of Order project, I found myself with a whole lot of nothing to say. I had exhausted everything that was in there writing it, and covered everything that was going on. I wrote in the period in between, but not much and certainly not well. I have never really been able to write about nothing.
I reached a point where I started to write seriously again, writing about the things that were going on. But, as those things weren't earth shattering, the songs weren't either. So I started to work on a project I felt little passion for, and that's a receipe for disaster. It went through song changes like you wouldn't believe as each mediocre song was replaced with another one. I did, however, write a couple of really good ones at the time, and didn't want to waste them.
Things progressed a lot for me personally and I stopped writing again. I had to move house, change jobs, and a few other things that left me in an odd place. But still I didn't write, and the project I had had hanging about was now old and stale, relating to yesterday, and coupling that with the lack of enthusiasm I had had for it anyway, I decided to drop the entire thing. Discussing this with a friend, a found myself having one of those epiphany-type moments when she simply said to me "Write about where you are now". Even though that should have been the most obvious thing the the world, I had missed it. In all the hassles I had been going through, I had forgotten to write about those same hassles! I started writing immediately and found i had a lot to say after all. I salvaged the songs from before that were good (and still relevant!) and completed the song-writing in a matter of weeks. The recording also happened quickly as did the mixing. I guess all the waiting paid off.
It's a different album to the first, maybe a little mellower, and certainly dealing more thoughts and feelings than events. Hence the title.
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- What's Wrong
- Beneath The Red Moon
- Out Of Order
- I Belong
- To Be Alone
- Two For The Road
- Not In My House
- Last Train
- Even
- Comes Down To This
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Album History:
This whole album was written over a short span of time, and it was my best collection of songs that came together. Maybe three months and the whole thing was written and pretty much recorded. I love to work like that. I think it produces good results, which tell a very concise tale without jumping too much around the place. An album should reflect the here and now, and Out Of Order does that perfectly of it's here and now.
It covers about a two years period when I was in a very delicate situation, and how that situation got resolved. It was a long period, and it consumed all of my thoughts and actions, and parts of it will never be over...but that's the stuff I don't even put in the songs. What I do put in, though, is the feelings that come in those circumstances, the confusion.
If you listen to the album, it'd not too hard to see how things were and what was going on, even though I don't put the obvious stuff right the surface. Out of this collection, other issues started to rise, and I found myself wondering "Now that that's over, what next? Where do I belong now?" That's what I am writing about now, and am working on a new collection I hope to post soon.