KITCHEN DANCING AND OTHER SOBERING THOUGHTS

27/10/06 - Er.

I have a livejournal and a myspace blog. I don't need this page. I'll deleted as soon as I can think of something fun with which to replace it.

02/01/06 - It's alive.

There comes a point in the creation of an album (or at least, there does when you create albums in the way I do) where the disparate fragments of ideas and shards of melodies begin to coalesce and some semblance of actual direction takes over from the chaos. That's the point I've reached in the past couple of days, and it feels very liberating. In the past, it's seemed like getting to this stage was always the hard part, and thereafter it was a breeze. Here's hoping the same will be true this time. It's been far too long since I've had any new music to show anyone - not one of the tracks is even remotely finished yet. Actually, that's a lie, but not two of them are even remotely finished.

Unfortunately, at around this point, the doubt always starts to creep in as well. At least my doubts this time are a bit different than usual. Whereas normally I would be cursing the shitty recording quality and generally bad production, this time I'm just wondering if all this music I'm pouring so much effort into is anywhere near original enough. It's a style of music vastly different to anything I've done before, and as I'm a bit inexperienced in this genre, it kind of wears its influences on its sleeve. It's a horrible feeling. Copying other artists was something I did six years ago when I'd just started writing songs. It's not something I should be doing these days.

Maybe it'll all turn out ok. Being willfully and self-consciously different is sometimes as bad as sitting down and copying your heroes.