Writing

The long road to releasing a new album starts with me flicking through old demos and voice notes looking for the seeds of some new songs. It felt like I was almost starting from scratch but I soon realised I had a good few pieces of songs which could turn into something good. At the same time as thinking about writing some new songs I read Rick Rubin’s book ‘The Creative Act’ which talks about the goal of art should be creating the art itself and nothing more. This concept seemed to trigger something because I almost instantly hit probably the hottest streak of songwriting I’ve ever had. This started with the song ‘The Prize’ which is lyrically based on that Rick Rubin concept. I’d had the music/melody for years, I think dating back to when I was still in The Chase around 2016, but I’d never been able to come up with a lyric. On day 1 of writing this album the lyrics came all in one go. And that has been the way ever since. For weeks I’ve been writing songs from start to finish in a very short space of time. Never longer than a day per song. Lyrics have never been particularly easy to write for me but they certainly are at the moment. Easily some of my best lyrics as well.

I will be sharing an acoustic demo of ‘The Prize’ on my BandCamp subscriber page very shortly for those who would like an early listen.

As well as finishing off old songs, I’ve written a good number of brand new tracks as well. A good mix of upbeat rockers and slower, acoustic things. I’ll post more about the individual tracks and share more demos along the way.