July 31, 2011
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News, Studio Diaries
Hey-
Our new full length album is now complete! That’s pretty cool, huh? It’s not “done done”; we mix it this monday through wednesday, and then master it later in the week. But as far as the actual music goes, it’s all wrapped up.
Here, while you wait for it to come out, are some Factoids about the new record:
Number of songs: 11
Number of songs longer than 4 minutes: 1
Number of songs in drop d tuning: 2
Number of songs with piano: 1
(I’m probably freaking some people already, but don’t worry)
Number of minutes the full album is: click here
Number of songs that, in my opinion, sound like Jawbreaker: 1
Number of songs a random person in a suit and tie you stopped on the street would think sound like Jawbreaker if you played them Jawbreaker and then this album back to back: 11
Number of songs ideas written in the first 12 months or so after Collapser wrapped up: 50+, although many of these are just riffs i stitched together, not “songs”
Number of people who would think “This album is…. kinda not so good” if we had used nothing but those songs: everyone
Number of songs written in the last 10 or 11 months that ended up on the record: 9
Number of lessons we can learn from the last 3 factoids: At least one, “It’s a good thing we didn’t rush this album”
Number of days we spent in the studio: 21, once mixing and mastering are done
Number of days Jacques, the engineer, worked from noon to 6AM or later: at least four
Number of songs Zack from Dear Landlord sings backups on: three
Number of times I ate a Con Uovo pizza, which is a pizza with egg, cheese, and black pepper on it, from a nearby restaurant for dinner: some crazy number
Number of times someone made the boneheaded decision to purchase White Castle despite the plethora of outstanding food establishments within a short walk from the studio: Only 1, I think!
Number of days I biked to the studio: 17 so far, with 4 days left
Number of days I was stoked to be biking to the studio, and not shivering my way home in sub-zero stupidity, staring at the ice beneath my feet, like I did last January when recording In Desolation at the same studio: Every Single Day
Number of album covers I designed before we finally found one everyone liked: 15+
Number of album titles we had before settling on one everyone liked: 1
So there you have it! Now you have a pretty good understanding of this album. Look for more info — the album cover, tracklisting, some MP3s, a release date, etc etc — in the weeks and months to come. For now, i’m stoked to get this mixed/mastered!
-Nate