So, to work.

I’ll gloss over the radio silence around these parts recently, if you don’t mind, since “normal service now resumes” posts are, for the most part, tedious. Suffice it to say that I’ve had a slightly difficult couple of weeks.

As for progress, I have one new song 99.5% written (I literally need to fix the tune for the last line) and am battling an unduly complex arrangement and trying to get the vocal right because the tune is, I now realise, incredibly hard to sing. This one’s called “Last trains,” alluded to previously.

I also have a polite little ditty called “Baby steps” that is written—I think—but may need the key bumping up a notch from the demo and a bit of arrangement work. This one, finally, is the “use all the old analogue gear” approach that I originally started out with; it’s mostly played on a Roland RS-09, SH-101, x0xb0x and MFB 503. I was listening to The Smiths again recently and thinking on the fact that some of their songs were better for not overextending a simple idea, so “Baby steps” is essentially two verses, a chorus and an outro. The “I think” above is because I can’t hear the outro in my head yet, and I want to have an idea before I start noodling away.

From next week things should assume a more level course, so the pace at which I’m able to finish and upload stuff should pick up rapidly. As will, no doubt, the twittering and tumbling and audiobooing. Bear with me.