Last year, on this day, I released an album of nine original songs called Living In The Static. I decided to challenge myself to do the same again this year, and started this project in December with a new song that became the title track of today’s release on Bandcamp.
In The Slowdown‘s song lyrics somewhat capture the murky thoughts of night, and also of the world that we find ourselves living in. It’s spirit sort of moved beneath the other eight songs. The only song I had put out there already was Hoping And Praying Like Hell — a protest song that I wrote and recorded quickly during the early Musk-ridden days of this new/old president, and I put out while I was still angry about what was happening (no worries — the anger is still here).
The rest of the new album is a mix of inner thinking — me, wrestling a bit with myself, and also, reminding myself of the loves we have in our lives.
I recorded all the songs at my computer — with acoustic guitar and vocals live, but all else, played either with a keyboard trigger instrument I have or (in the case of drums) loops. Last year, I paid someone to master the tracks but didn’t this year (no reason but I do wish now that I could have easily evened out the overall volume of all of the tracks on the album).
Listen to In The Slowdown, if you are interested. It’s hosted at Bandcamp, but you can listen without purchasing anything. If you find anything interesting to your ears, then hey, that’s success for me.
Peace (and sound mind),
Kevin