the Felix Culpa

recording journal, we have not forgotten about you. alas, we have just been out of the studio for a while. it’s actually been rather frustrating, but what more can you expect from 4 extremely family oriented people around the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. that and we’ve run out of available recording money, but i digress…

i did manage to get in a late night session with jeffro where we recorded some scratch vocal tracks. it made me realize just how incomplete a lot of the vocal ideas are, both lyrically and melodically. i think i just keep hoping that there will be some grand, inspiring event that will cause everything to come together. i guess we’ll see.

we’ve been playing a few of the new songs out live quite regularly and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. so, thanks everyone for that. we’ve also been working out some new arrangements for some of the older material, which we’ve (believe it or not) found time to record & mix away from this upcoming full length. we’re actually working out the details of getting that stuff released as well. that will probably end up happening before this full length, very possibly even as a bundled prerelease of sorts. so yeah, you heard it here first kids.

also in new release land, there have been rumblings of a vinyl-only split (with Chicago area dance contest champions Inspector Owl) to be released by our friends at Common Cloud Records in the first quarter of this new year. we’ll have more details on that as they come up. we’ll probably pick 2 or 3 of our favorite tracks that didn’t make the final cut for this new full length and give them a proper release. i really hope that this one comes to fruition. we ended up cutting more songs than i would’ve liked in order to not have this album delve into double album territory, which it definitely could’ve.

so anyway, i know i speak on behalf of everyone here when i say i hope you all have a safe and merry christmas and we’ll be seeing you next year. tell gandma hi and kiss the kids from us. and if anyone has a suggestion for an album title other than “Island of the Aqua Blue Dolphins”, we’re open.

-marky

ps. we got our van back. again.

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