Intermission.

Halfway through the album is an intermission. But it's not a normal intermission. It's Intermission!

This one's about folk weaponising ideals and preaching big words they've misinterpreted while skim-reading the wrong doomscrolls. Lashing out at their closest for not living up to concepts they've misunderstood themselves, that only exist in their own mind... then wondering why nobody's there for them anymore.

And some just need a bit of time out to recalibrate their perspective. Look at track 3 it did the protagonist wonders! At first.

Musically it's an absolute Frankenstein. Some of the ideas are ANCIENT. The bridge solo section is from 2012!! I came up with the music for the chorus at a mate's flat in 2016, and the rest of the chorus in summer 2018.

These ideas were all orphans for a very long time, and the harder I tried to force them into something, the less it worked. Until the rest of the song arrived in 2020... and they ALL fit like a glove!!

The catalyst was a bossa nova setting on a Mellotron thingy, and it spiralled from there. It's covered in those, Moogs, weird chord changes, and a funny 1970s Roland drum machine that goes "tss tss". A Gershwin riff had just become public domain so that went in!

I used varispeed on my voice cos I wasn't used to hearing it back yet. But this album captures my formation as a singer-songwriter (hence loading), and that's a reflection of me at that time. So it stays!

Written 2012-2023 (not continuously, obvs). Recorded June 2020 to August 2023. Again all recorded by me.

And after all that time.... "IT'S ALIVE!!" And it's track 5 x