Well, the time has come for us to work on new songs. We've been singing the same 7 or so songs for the past few months and the decision was made to work on some original material and another cover. These things inevitably take time to come together, through discussion, disagreement, and downright hard work. Some songs are relitively easy to do. Their chord progressions make them easy to interpret and the lyrics are straightforward and might hold memories. Some songs are by their very nature tricky. They are hard to learn, hard to find a way into and hard to interpret. Thats why we choose to do them. No point in trolling out the same covers as everyone else, we made a concious decision to work on material that very few actually cover, specifically because its difficult, it might have strange progressions, tricky time signatures, or otherwise tongue twisting lyrics.
One song has kept us busy for around 2 months now. It was refusing to be bent to our will. Whatever we did to it, something just wasn't "quite right" with it. Last night (Friday), we finally cracked the three songs we've been working on. Well... we cracked 2. Both original songs. We feel like we're accomplishing something now. Its inspiring us to create more songs and work harder on the ones we have already done.
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