Vocal Athletics/recording
We're recording this week. Four new songs - Momentum, Sorcerers, Bones and Roundabouts. Nice, succinct titles. They're lovely, full songs, with a definite leap on from 'Control'. I think I'm just beginning to understand GoodBooks songs now, whatever that means. A couple of them are longer than most of our old songs, one of them even flirting with the 4 minute mark (!). But maybe that's just because it's slower than songs can sometimes be.
Leo’s been writing like it’s a race, which is both sickening and brilliant; it’s a real treat to sing the songs he brings in, because they’re so great, but also a daunting task, because his writing has absolutely no respect for what might be easy or comfortable to sing, so I’m all over the place, at the very top and bottom of my range. Yes, higher than Leni. In contrast, the songs that I’ve worked on with JP are all tailored to fall right within my ‘sweet-spot’. It’s nice to have both approaches, and although I don’t think Leo reads my blogs, if you do then in the words of the Thrills, don’t change a thing!
We played football yesterday too, which is definitely not an alternative career path for any of us. Me and JP lost 2-1, after a promising start. I’m going back to Berlin, briefly, then we start recording on Friday. One of the things I like about this whole making a second album thing is that when the time comes to get the new songs out there, they will all be new; there won’t be any of the silly ‘and here’s GoodBooks’ NEW song’, when people have had that song sitting on their iTunes for 2 years!
Speaking of iTunes, check out the most recent Underworld album, ‘Oblivion with Bells’. I think it’s rather great; I bought it a few months ago and only listened to it a couple of times, but it popped up on shuffle the other day, and I’ve been listening to it quite a lot. ‘Ring Road’ I think is my favourite, but it’s a consistent record.
Right, I’m off to Fabric to begin a 4-day binge on pills and house music. Only kidding, I’m going to go and get a hot chocolate.
xx
Max
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