mcdonald

ever get humbled? how's this? we put up a new song on the myspace page called mcdonald. it's an instrumental that will close our record. it's beautiful and i had nothing to do with it. scott o made a recording of various voice samples. rory took those samples and made a beautiful ambient 3 minute track that both incorporates the samples but also pushes the heroes sound further than it's ever been. it's terse and gorgeous.
i did, however, hand the drive holding the samples to rory, so let's not downplay my role in this either.
check it myspace.com/heroesofpopularwars

she's a microscope

working on a new track called she's a microscope. it's kind if both proggy, jammy and still a pretty tight pop song. the original samples and arrangement seem very tight and cool so we'll use most of it. maybe the up/down loud/quiet might be too much but hopefully all our new songs wont have so much time to ferment so they'll be less complimmicated.
the jam at the end is going to be interesting. it involves multiple playing simple parts then improvising towards a shared line that eventually, everyone will be paying. that's some pretty organized chaos.
This week is an incredible week for indie rock and particularly for women in indie - - yeah yeah yeahs, bat for lashes and metric. wow - incredible.

that shaking sound

we started work on a song called that shaking sound. the chorus has always been the best part of the song, now the rest of the song needs to be worked until it's up to the same level. rory did some really cool delayed snare which make the beat seem busier than it was played. totally changes the part. now just trying to remodel the verse and we'll have something. there's a possiblity that paul langosch (tony bennett, mel torme etc.) the stand up bass player may come and do a quick session with us this saturday. that would be an amazing honor. wow.
been listening to talk talk, the dark was the night compliation and a bunch of 80s singles downloaded from the retro-blog popdose.com's feature "the ass end of the 80s" a listing of all 80s singles that made the top 100 but not the top 40.