Saturday, January 16, 2016

Album number ten

Time for an update on the long-not-awaited follow-up to 2011's Transmission, I think!

Basically, we've got more than enough good songs to get on with recording the next album, but we haven't quite managed to find the time to actually get on with it.

Also, we've noticed on the last few albums (actually going right back to 2004's single mix of Not a Million Miles) that the subsequent remixes of songs often end up being better than the originals. This might be because recording an hour or so of music for an album, all at once, is actually quite a lot of work. Anyway, there are plenty of recent examples too, in particular I'll Give You Electro, so we've decided to do something about it.

So with all of that in mind, this time around, the vague plan will be to release it pretty much as we go along, starting with some EPs, and then reworking as necessary until it takes the shape of an album. I suppose that presumably means that our recent record of releasing albums further and further apart may well continue ("recent" ones have been early 2001, early 2002, late 2003, end of 2006, and late 2011, so we aren't actually due to do anything until roughly 2018 anyway).

But what can you do? Not a whole lot, it would seem.