Has Arrived

We are going in a hundred directions at once with the new material.

There’s some folksy stuff, some dance stuff, some melancholy stuff, some experimental stuff, etc., but we’re not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. By that I mean, should an album stay in the same vein for the duration, or do people prefer more of a scattershot approach?

My gut reaction is: keep everything in line. Make a dance album, or an experimental album, or whatever.

BUT then I got to thinking about the way people purchase music these days. Typically, people buy by the song not by the album, so lately I’ve been thinking that a scattershot album might be a better approach in order to get a wider range of people to buy at least one song.

People who like to listen to music by themselves in their rooms can buy the melancholy stuff. People who like banjos and beards can buy the folky stuff. People who wear really tight pants and neon shirts can buy the dance stuff. And people who like drugs can buy the experimental stuff.

(Also, it makes us feel more like the Beatles when we put a huge range of styles within close proximity to one another…so it’s got that going for it…which is nice.)

All that to say…No decisions have been reached. We’re still mulling that one over.

In the mean time, we’re in the process of ramping up our live show schedule (which is easy to do when you only have to play one show in order to make it look like you’re playing more shows).

I don’t have any dates for you right now. The Haiti benefit show is still in the works. (The guy in charge is less than cooperative right now…but I promise that it will happen, even if we have to go over this guy’s head and set up our own thing.) We’re going to go to Warrenton soon, because we’ve been neglecting them and they seem to like us there (sorry guys).

I guess that’s about it for now.

Later gators,
-Terry

Tags: A Word From Terry