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This chart has been on my mind for a few days as I keep working towards the completion of this album. Ye gods.

A big shout out to Don Hopkins and Marcus Holden who helped me wrestle with a difficult song over the last 2 years.

The biggest influence on this album has been the term 'signposts, not destinations', although I may not be phrasing that in the clearest manner.

Having decided to just draw a line at what I have to hand, I have looped back to the start of the process and found that stuff I had put aside is actually OK.

Work with what you got. This has been balanced against the necessary shaping forces of time, covid and mixing this album (mostly) ourselves.

 

Our previous process has been: write it, play it live, tweak it, record it, get into the studio and power through it expeditiously 'cos this is costing us some dollars.

Under the current circumstances,we have had longer to work on the post production. The tools have also shaped the music, just as the times have.

It's been good to press, good to pause and it will be grand to finish. There are more songs to follow, and to get to them, I gotta get this stuff out of my brain space.

Rather than fast or slow, this is the time it took, and it's time to deliver. 

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