pickle darling album journal entry 1
hello everyone!!
These last few months have been wild, playing shows with Cavetown and Matchbox Twenty and the Goo Goo Dolls, but now that those are done I'm back at work on the next album!
I'd say I'm about 30% of the way through the new record! at the moment I have an album title and it starts with B, ends with S, and has ten letters.
The reason this album is taking so long is because I'm kind of doing it in a backwards way, so by coming up with parts and then seeing if I can recreate those parts in a really chopped up way. So there's lots of guitars that don't sound like guitars, cause each part is made of about 50 recordings spliced together to create a new guitar part that hasn't actually been 'performed'. That probably sounds confusing.
Currently the biggest inspirations for the album are The Wrens 'The Meadowlands', Four Tet 'Rounds', the Microphones 'Mount Eerie', and of course Wilco 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'. Lots of audible edits, parts assembled into songs, some super long songs (maybe), less banjo and more kalimbas. Bigness was I guess my bedroom pop album, Cosmonaut was my kind of cosmic country album, Laundromat was my folk album, and B________s will be my weird cut up scrappy collage type album (which isn't a genre i know). Songs that are assembled more in my editing software. It's still early stages though but I have about 3 songs that I'd say are finished (the acronyms for the names of those songs are LOK, VV, and HBIM).
Anyway that's the first email of my album production journal, I'll go into more details in the next few!
Thank you!
Lukas
currently listening to:
Mina - Studio Uno '66
Mo Troper - Troper Sings Brion
Mui Zyu - 'the mould'
Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Baby
Anonymous 4 - Origin of Fire (Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen)
Lael Neale - Acquainted with Night
Bruce Hornsby - 'Flicted
Wurld Series - The Giant's Lawn
The Afghan Whigs - 1965
Hannah Everingham - 'Don't Be Crass'
Bob Dylan - Side Tracks
Burial - Tunes 2011-2019
Sister Nancy - One Two
Bill Fay - Self-titled
Grandaddy - Blu Wav
Helado Negro - Phasor
Tapir! - the pilgrim, their god, and the king of my decrepit mountain
Sam Bambery - 'Parasite'
Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt
Car Colors - 'Old Death'
and of course the entire discography of Matchbox Twenty