Monday, October 31, 2005

Studio trickery and treats

Arta and Steven added an echo effect to Mark's lead vocals at the beginning of each chorus. Steven reinforced the bass line by doubling it with piano. The new mixdown is definitely projecting massive amounts of strength even at low volume.

Arta: "'The Clapping Song' is some genre-inventing shit. Neon Phosphor can quote me on that."

Sunday, October 30, 2005

"Is the album being released with a record label?"

----Adhesive labels can damage a CD-R over time. We're just going to write on the CD surface with a Sharpie.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

An exclusive interview with Steven Chow

NP: I AM NEON PHOSPHOR

SC: ha! i saw that one coming.

NP: AS THE STUDIO ENGINEER, YOU HAVE THE BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE WHOLE PROJECT.

SC: yeah, it totally sucks the fun out of music, doesn't it? but it's worth it.

NP: WHAT IS THE PRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THIS ALBUM?

SC: wall of sound. yes, we could've easily made the album sound clean and close-up, like the beatles' revolver. but i want to make an album that is instantly recognizable as a los angeles production, following in the footsteps of phil spector and brian wilson. mark was talking about folk art being a response to one's culture, and i would add geography to the mix. this is an album about being raised in los angeles, a city under perpetual construction, a city of possibility, diversity and literally the terminus of the 'american dream.' now i'm not saying los angeles is perfect--it's far from it in actuality--but that's what it has represented throughout its history. i think the ambition of our project reflects the spirit of los angeles. we are going for a big, ambitious sound. not necessarily a muddy sound, but a rich, focused, powerful sound. i want this album to stir the imagination.

NP: BUT IS IT A GENUINE SOUND?

SC: part of a record's success is based on how it affects the listener. any indie artist can sit there with an acoustic guitar and pour his heart out. that would be as 'honest' as you can get, but it is so boring and uninspiring as a pop record. so i say, if our five-guitar attack can make you energized, make you want to dance, make you want to cry, whatever, i say we have done our job well.

NP: DO YOU THINK THIS ALBUM WILL CHANGE THE WORLD?

SC: it'll sure change my world once i'm done with it. finally, i won't have to sit there listening to our music all day, moving the faders up and down. as for the rest of the world, of course.

NP: SO, WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING WITH YOUR RADIOSHACK KEYBOARD? ARE YOU GOING TO UPGRADE, LIKE ARTA AND MARK?

SC: i have the following items on my wish list: moog synthesizer, rhodes piano, and farfisa organ. that, and the phil spector 'back to mono' box set.

NP: I HEARD THAT YOU'RE CHANGING SOME OF THE LYRICS BECAUSE YOU NO LONGER AGREE WITH THEM, SUCH AS "LOVE MAKES PEOPLE STUPID" AND "I AM ONE TOO MUCH." CARE TO VERIFY THIS RUMOR?

SC: no, you can't just revise your songs like that. those were real sentiments as felt during january 2004 and december 2004, respectively. even if i don't feel the same way now, the songs need to stay the way they are. that's why it's so important to finish albums quickly because you don't have to fake your emotion when you sing. then you're being an actor just as much as a singer. for instance, i had to redo my lucy vocals the other day. those lyrics were from 2003. there's a reason why i sang it better in 2003 because i didn't realize that lucy had actually tricked me into something.

Friday, October 28, 2005

An exclusive interview with Ian Asbjornsen

NP: I AM NEON PHOSPHOR.

IA: Yo

NP: THE TONICS ARE PLAYING THIS WINTER, BUT SINCE YOU'RE NOT 21 AND YOU'RE MOSTLY AT SCHOOL, THERE WILL LIKELY BE A GIGGING REPLACEMENT FOR YOU. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY TO PROSPECTIVE DRUMMERS?

IA: Hold it down, but remember, this is only a one night stand. And although I'm not 21 and am mostly at school, I've got chops like a 38 year old who never even went to school.

NP: THE TONICS ALBUM IS SET FOR RELEASE DECEMBER 28. WHAT SHOULD THE WORLD EXPECT?

IA: An explosion of pop media.

NP: HAVE YOU DONE ANYTHING MUSICAL OR ARTISTIC THIS SEMESTER?

IA: I choreographed a 6 minute "dance" piece with my friend set to our own electronic music/remix chaos for a big show on campus. I still regularly perform with my electronic music performance art group "Cave of the Wolf." I play drums with various people. Still trying to form a hardcore punk band called "Demon Semen." Also practicing for the premier of an intense all-synth band. I've been obsessively editing and working on the soundtrack to my sci-fi masterpiece film, "Priest Robotica." I've been writing lots of piano and electronic music songs. I take Chinese calligraphy and piano lessons.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

"You're Only Human"

Arta re-recorded all of his guitar parts for "You're Only Human," the song about the nuclear bombings at the end of World War II.

An exclusive interview with Mark Williams

NP: I AM NEON PHOSPHOR

MW: hey, guy

NP: I HEARD YOU RECENTLY PUT TOGETHER A STUDIO UP IN DAVIS. IT'S ABOUT TIME. TELL US ABOUT YOUR UPCOMING RECORDING PROJECTS.

MW: it is about time. well, the first project is cleaning my four track's guts so that things will sound a bit prettier. part of that is producing a new vocal track for the clapping song. then comes alpha and omega. and then, well, the sky's the limit

NP: THE TONICS ARE PLAYING ON DEC. 28, ALSO THE RELEASE DATE OF THE ALBUM. WHAT SHOULD THE WORLD EXPECT?

MW: popular music by young musicians that's worth listening to. the beginning and end of that are meant to tie together.

NP: HOW IS THE ALBUM COMING ALONG?

MW: swimmingly. it'll slaughter.

NP: WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE? WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS ALBUM THAN ALL THE OTHER STUFF OUT THERE?

MW: authentic personality. as i wrote in the craigslist ad, this isn't about commercial success so much as it is about music that we, as a couple of guys with instruments, want to make. the alluring thing to me about any art, but especially folk art, is a persona coming to grips with its culture. and that seems to be wholly lacking in the music that's played on the radio today. leadbelly to woody guthrie to bob dylan to the beatles to the jam to the velvet underground seemed to have that personal interaction with their cultures

NP: WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE TONICS THAN OTHER SO-CALLED "INDIE POP" SUCH AS THE SHINS AND THE POSTAL SERVICE?

MW: they seem a little too made-up, a little too afraid of making mistakes or seeming "pastiche," as the fuckers on somesongs glibly say. i remember reading some interview with billy corgan in which he talked about how difficult it was to come up with music that sounded original, and i think that all these indie bands feel so desperately that need to innovate that they've forgotten how to meaningfully innovate, that they've abstracted innovation out of the personal realm and into a strange public context. that's a dangerous thing to do, in my mind, and a little sheepish. very sheepish. i mean, elliott smith openly admitted that he had always listened to the beatles, which is a faux paus in indie music these days. it's ok to like the beatles

NP: SO WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? HAVE YOU MADE ANY NEW DISCOVERIES FROM THE PAST LATELY?

MW: steven just told me to listen to a bobby vee song, which i think is great. i've been listening to the band quite a bit. i've also been listening to the jam's "the gift" a bit, which was poppy when poppy was not so acceptable. and it's good stuff, though i'm getting a little sick of the I vi chord change

NP: LET'S SHIFT GEARS AND TALK GEAR. ARTA'S GOTTEN A NEW AMP AND PEDALS. WILL YOU BE GETTING SOME NEW EQUIPMENT YOURSELF ANYTIME SOON?

MW: i'm trying to get together the money to buy a strat and a new amp. it'll depend on what the pawn shops have.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

"Lucy" updated

We have posted a new version of "Lucy" with a different vocal track, an organ, and a more wall-of-sound mix.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

A productive day

During a marathon session, Steven did a final mixdown of "Pixies," re-recorded lead vocals for a sped-up, remixed version of "You're Only Human" for Alan's film, and recorded breathier lead vocals and an extra organ line for "Lucy."

"I do my best to make all the Pop Go The Tonics EPs out there obsolete."

Fortunately, the several owners of the Pop Go The Tonics EP will receive complimentary copies of the album when it comes out.

Monday, October 24, 2005

"Pixies" revisited

Steven finished mixing "Pixies," a song with Elisa Morimoto on lead vocals. "Pixies" was originally recorded in summer 2004, but it was soon lost to the archives when we quit Sculpted Static and formed The Tonics.

"Whether it's eventually released or not, it was a nice mixing and mastering exercise," explained the bored, unemployed studio engineer. "A break from album work but something to keep me on my toes."

Meanwhile, Mark has been recording test vocals on his 4-track. "I don't have a mic stand, and I don't want to hold it while singing. It's also a unidirectional mic, so I might have to dangle it from the ceiling and lie on the floor to record my vocals."

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Building the wall of sound

What started out as a recording session for "Hamlet" turned into a day of negative progress for "The Clapping Song." Mark vetoed his own vocal track, and Steven removed all other vocal tracks to clear up extra channels for instruments. The instrumental tracks will now take up all 16 available slots. We will then perform a reduction mixdown of the instrumental into the two stereo tracks, freeing up 14 tracks for vocals and other stuff. Vintage studio technique for a vintage sound.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

"The Clapping Song"

Steven recorded tambourine and a new intro for "The Clapping Song."

"I want this recording to deliver the same kind of energy we produced at our electrifying Berkeley performance, despite the limitations of the stereo format," explained the wannabe Phil Spector.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Here's a clue for you all...

Nerds unite against "Sunday Night"

"Sunday Night" has started off with an average rating of 5/10 after 5 votes on somesongs. Neon Phosphor doesn't get it either. Meanwhile, production continues on "The Clapping Song" as the album inches closer to completion.

More mixing

"The Clapping Song" and a demo CD featuring 11 songs.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Los Angeles rocks... again

Ever since Brian Wilson had a nervous breakdown, Jim Morrison overdosed, Mama Cass had a heart attack, and Phil Spector locked himself in his mansion, the Los Angeles music scene has staggered through the decades without producing another pop rock icon. Until now.

On December 28, 2005, a new hope for the decadent Los Angeles culture will come in the form of fifteen mind-blowing tracks to pick up where 60s pop left off. The Tonics' new album will synthesize all the great sounds that could only come from "the city of angels."

"The record is about 75% complete and I am totally amazed by what I've heard so far," said Tonics publicist Neon Phosphor. "I'm not sure the world is ready for this kind of music."

Some of the new tracks will feature a wall-of-sound technique unheard for nearly two generations, and vocal harmonies that died with the aborted album Smile by the Beach Boys. Mark Williams' singing style closely resembles that of the legendary Morrissey, who incidentally resides in the Los Angeles area.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Recording with the new amp

Arta recorded some guitar tracks for "The Clapping Song" and "Sunday Night" with the new Fender amp and distortion pedal. The album is now due on December 28, just in time for the Lava Lounge gig, and for 2006 to be the year of the Tonics.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Somesongs watch

The Tonics are currently occupying the 3rd, 4th and 7th positions on the past month's tops, with "Love Makes People Stupid" showing the way, followed by "Lisa" and "Mean Song."

"Someone told me that the Tonics are playing at the Lava Lounge on December 28."----Unfortunately, at this time we cannot confirm nor deny the rumors that we are playing a championship game of bridge at the 'lounge.'

"Bridge, eh? Do you mean the song 'London Bridge' that's supposed to appear on the new album?"----We'll pass on that one. We're not at the point where we can afford to pay royalties as soon as we start singing, "London Bridge is falling down..." Don't trick us into singing 'Happy Birthday' for you, either.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

The Tonics, live at the ...

We're going through the motions to get ourselves booked for a gig in December and beyond. Hopefully we can confirm a date soon.

"Is this the beginning of a new era in rock?"----No, rock is dead. We've scattered its remains over our particular brand of pop.

"Pop? Does that mean you're about to sign an endorsement deal with a soda company?"----No, we're signing a deal with Satan.

"Hmm, are you suggesting that you're going on tour with Ozzy Osbourne? We do know that Mark was once in a Black Sabbath cover band."----Maybe.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Another "Sunday Night" session

Steven recorded some more harmonies and Arta recorded some new guitar parts and finger snapping.

Monday, October 10, 2005

The first step to fame

Hello,

I'm a member of The Tonics (www.popgothetonics.com), an independently managed and produced Pasadena-area pop group interested in playing its music live at a suitable venue. We have been honing our material for 5 years now, priding ourselves for a professional sound combining a dry lyrical sensibility with upbeat music in a way evocative of The Smiths, The Chordettes, and Lou Reed. Below, please find links to three songs (if you'd prefer a CD, we'll gladly send you a copy):

the_tonics_-_01_-_distance.mp3
the_tonics_-_04_-_lucy_tricked_me_into_something.mp3
the_tonics_-_mean_song.mp3

Though we have played sparingly at various cafes and houses, our competency as both musicians and songwriters has ensured that every set has been well-received. Any show that we play will not be a disappointment. We are currently interested in shows scheduled during and after mid-December.

Thank you much for your time and interest,

(insert band member name here)

Craigslist ad

From today's Craigslist.
(Sometimes things change in ways a calendar can't appreciate.)

Want to play good music? The Tonics (www.popgothetonics.com) are seeking a drummer and a bassist in central LA county for playing gigs by mid-December. Like straight-forward pop music and good times? Help us perform these songs the way the Who did live:

the_tonics_-_01_-_distance.mp3
the_tonics_-_04_-_lucy_tricked_me_into_something.mp3
the_tonics_-_mean_song.mp3

We're not trying to be money makers, just musicians -- respond if you'd like to make rock out of our material.

this is in or around Pasadena
no -- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: If there is any, we'll share it properly.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

"Who is Lisa?"

Lisa Loeb is the first and only unsigned artist to have a number one hit on the American charts, with the song "Stay (I Missed You)," featured on the soundtrack to the movie Reality Bites and later released on her debut album Tails (which was co-produced by Juan Patino, her then-boyfriend). Her band Nine Stories is named after the J. D. Salinger collection.

Harmony work on "Sunday Night"

Steven: "such a chore..."

Friday, October 07, 2005

"Lisa" misunderstood, so far

We all thought "Lisa" was going to be a hit, but surprisingly the comments haven't been good so far. Tough crowd.

"very cool retro sound, but unfortunately all i could muster was an ok, you lost the cool hook of the last ones."----I disagree. The whole chord progression is a hook. Few indie rockers write songs based around the blues chords.

"Vocal delivery sounds better than the last two - but this has veered even further into pastiche territory [okay] law of diminishing returns I guess."----Pastiche? The so-called "hip" doth live in the present too much. An artist of any consequence does not operate in the context of "progress." Humans have not changed for millenia, and humans today respond to the same stimuli as humans in 1966. This band do not apply the terms modernity and archaism to works of art. We enjoy The Beatles as much as Elliott Smith, as though as they performed side by side. We borrow as much from the classics as from the modernists, whatever suits our needs. So what if "Lisa" could've been a hit in 1966? I'm sure OK Computer would've been a hit in 1966, too. "Lisa" is a perfectly good rock song with absolutely nothing clever, satirical or tongue-in-cheek about it. This line of thinking, of course, is what produces timeless classics, which is why we're definitely going to be canonized in rock-and-roll history.

[From yesterday, regarding "Love Makes People Stupid"]

"That scream halfway through (and again towards the end) makes you sound like you saw a spider in the corner of the downstairs bathroom. This reminds me of that post Jane's Addiction group that Perry Farrell was in. This song is okay."----Some people exist just to bitch, bitch, bitch. Neon Phosphor might like to bitch, but Neon Phosphor never bitches about other people's artwork.

"Love Makes People Stupid"

Don't worry, it's just a working title. We have posted the song formerly known as "Therefore Play Music" formerly known as "The Spanish Song" formerly known as "Therefore Play Music" on somesongs.com to see how it would do. Right now, it's not doing too badly, with an average rating of 8 out of 10.

Tomorrow, we will unleash our new secret weapon, "Lisa."

Arta: "lisa is our first legitimate "rock" song. like, ever. including the sculpted static days"

Blog readers, consider yourselves lucky because you get to preview all these new songs.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

An exclusive interview with Mark Williams

NP: I AM NEON PHOSPHOR.

MW: i'm mark williams and i've been writing songs

NP: INDEED. SOME LISTENERS IN A FOCUS GROUP HAVE DESCRIBED "MEAN SONG" AS BEING LIKE "AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING." CARE TO RESPOND?

MW: why would deaf people be in a music focus group?

NP: WELL SAID. SO, HOW'S THE ALBUM COMING ALONG?

MW: beautifully. it's starting to make good sense now. which is to say, almost all the songs we've been producing for the past 6 months have a coherent sound. this is not sculpted static's leaping from "lost child" to "mad men"

NP: HAVE THE TONICS BECOME "MAD MEN"? IS THIS ALBUM THE WORK OF INSANE PEOPLE?

MW: there's no sanskrit verb paradigms, here. i'd like to think this is pretty sane stuff, with a drinking problem, maybe.

NP: AH, YES. THE LAST TONICS MEETING WAS AT THE CHALET IN EAGLE ROCK. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT BAR?

MW: imagine a closet in a ski lodge equipped with a surprisingly diverse jukebox. it was a hit, like the tonics. shall i say, will be a hit

NP: OF COURSE. I'VE LISTENED TO THE ALBUM-IN-PROGRESS, TOO. HIT AFTER HIT AFTER HIT...

MW: it's getting dangerous

(by the way, it never occurred to me that mean song would be interpreted as a suicide song. makes me feel like an idiot-savant, considering how many different things i've said about it)

NP: THE BAND RECENTLY VETOED "APART", ONE OF THE BEST SONGS FROM SUNNY ASH. HOW DO YOU FEEL?

MW: apart was seemed a little amateurish to me. there was no bass on it, nothing exciting going on in terms of the chord progression. the lyrics alone seemed to pass muster to me, but even then... "on a foreign ceiling/in a lost room" did i really need to tell you where things are spelled out? why didn't i just say "a big goddamn chalkboard on which things are communicated obliquely"

NP: SHOWS HOW FAR THE BAND'S COME ALONG, DOESN'T IT? I MEAN, JUST TWO YEARS AGO, "APART" WAS A BIG HIT.

MW: it was half-hearted, we all knew something was awry. steven and i wrote [i expect produced is more accurate] this song called "jaguar" during the same time we recorded the guts of apart. we were running around with a tape recorder, chasing after car alarms for this. does the world need car alarms in pop songs? i mean, really: that line of thinking does not produce hits. it taints everything

NP: BACK THEN, IT WAS PROG, THOUGH. I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHY THE NAME CHANGE FROM SCULPTED STATIC WAS SO IMPORTANT.

MW: i'd agree. it's a pretty succinct way of looking at things. the name "sculpted static" was a lot like the music. there's some novel internal dynamicism that wears thin to reveal something vaguely annoying and insipid. i have to dilute that a bit, since i was in the band then

NP: LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BAND NOW. YOU'VE MORE OR LESS SETTLED ON THIS EARLY 60s AND 80s SOUND. AS ARTA SAYS, "A LINE TRACEABLE FROM THE BEATLES TO THE SMITHS."

MW: yeah, i think that's pretty insightful

NP: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LATE 60s AND ALL OF THE 1970s?

MW: that was sculpted static, to be sure. "marbles"? "last sun"?

NP: DO YOU THINK THE WORLD IS READY FOR THE TONICS?

MW: i hope so. i think so. my sister compared us to jon brion, which i think is apt.
even though our songs form a pretty coherent whole, though, we're still settling into whatever it is we are. so the world's going to listen at some point, and the world would be pretty impressed if it let us play at the troubadour.

NP: SO, HOW ARE YOUR SIDE PROJECTS DOING?

MW: ridiculous. ahem.

NP: MOST READERS DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOUR SIDE PROJECTS. CAN YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR BAND?

MW: well, i'm not going to say the name, because it's not yet time for those two parts of my life to come together. but this band that i've played in occasionally, here in davis, is a party band

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

The focus group says...

We have posted "Mean Song" to a web site called somesongs.com. It's a site where people can rate and comment on each other's original mp3s. Since we are artists, we don't let other people's opinions affect our work, especially if it's from a self-selected group of extroverted and judgmental musicians. But being curious is only human, so here are some comments we have gotten, and Neon Phosphor's responses:

"That 'better get' chorus is the catchiest thing I have ever heard."----Hell yeah, I don't know how Mark wrote that chorus. Or rather, what drug he was using at the time.

"Superfluous harmonies and guitar leads meant to evoke 'And Your Bird Can Sing' aside, this is way more Smithsesque than Beatlesque. It's okay enough to get an okay."----Huh? It sounds nothing like 'And Your Bird Can Sing.' Arta's playing a descending scale. The guitar riff on AYBCS is this weird ass melody that goes up and down. What the fuck are you smoking?

"Wow, Erik is pretty mean. That said, I totally hear what he's saying. Still, [good] This is a beautiful song, if not a bit derivative of AYBCS."----Again, "Mean Song" has nothing to do with that fine example of psychedelic rock on Revolver. You must be on shrooms.

"Nice melody but the totally uninvolved vocal delivery makes it sound like you hate your own song."----Dude, if you actually listened to the lyrics, it's about fucking suicide, which is what you should be doing instead of writing these idiotic song reviews.

"How could you not like this./ Excellent./ P.S. i think the harmonies are a great touch, and most definitely needed."----There we go. See, this guy is probably an artist. True artists are generous people and they say nice things if they say anything at all. I mean, people put their heart and soul into art that doesn't pay them anything. That fact alone should command your respect.

Log in to somesongs.com and head on to the "Mean Song" page if you want to add to the buzz!

Lisa, it was really nothing

"Lisa" is so noisy, it sounds like "Nothing" from our last album, Sunny Ash. Steven worked on his lead vocal today. Because of all the noise from the instrumental track, the vocals required heavy compression in order to be audible over all frequencies.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Famous people

Our publicity plans include sending complimentary album copies to famous people like Mel Brooks (husband of the late Anne Bancroft), Phil Spector (whose "wall-of-sound" recording techniques have influenced our album) and Morrissey.

The Tonics are distantly associated with Spector and Morrissey, both of whom live in the Los Angeles area. Arta's sister once spoke "a word or two" to the former Smiths frontman at a party, and one of our high school friends waved to Morrissey at an Arcade Fire concert at the Troubadour, and Morrissey waved back.

At one point, the Spector estate owned a video of Mark playing guitar at school. It was shot by Spector's daughter, who was an acquaintance of Mark's. It is not known whether the tape has survived to this day, or whether the legendary producer himself has seen this footage of the next great rock-and-roll sensation. Meanwhile, Phil Spector's murder trial is set to begin in January 2006.

Lisa, listen to this awesome song

Arta and Steven recorded the instrumental track for "Lisa," a surf/Pixies-style rocker. Steven will work on the lyrics overnight and finish the vocals tomorrow morning.

Monday, October 03, 2005

"Is rock dead?"

----Sure, but rock is hardly alive to begin with. It's made of inorganic minerals, and only seldom does it contain organic material left over from dead plants and animals (usually in sedimentary rock). But the earth's crust is made of only 5% sedimentary rock, with the rest being igneous and metamorphic rock.

"But you haven't released anything since 'Agoraphobia' and 'Anne Bancroft'! Have you guys given up?"----That was only four months ago. Consider that Radiohead haven't released anything since 2003. Are they dead? Actually, the answer is yes, they started dying when they released Amnesiac.

Sunday, October 02, 2005

What's going onto the album?

Today, we vetoed "Apart," "Tonight," "Portrait," and "Country." If time permits, these songs will be finished and placed into a B-sides collection.

We will still be left with 19 songs running a little bit under 60 minutes. The following is a speculative track listing: Distance, Sad, Lucy, Lucy Tricked Me Into Something, Thank You, Elegy For Anne Bancroft, Agoraphobia, Waltz, Bartleby, Greenback, The Clapping Song, Crowds of Nervous People, Hamlet, Mean Song, Save The Day, Sunday Night, Therefore Play Music, Amaj7, and Alpha And Omega.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

"Sunday Night" will be the new "Distance"

Considering that most of the world will hear "Sunday Night" and "Distance" on the same record, "Sunday Night" won't really go down as the 'new' anything. Anyway, "Sunday Night" will have the same sort of three-part harmony vocals excruciatingly composed by Steven, and that double guitar sound you've come to expect from this band.