
If I take the first route, it means I get to release three new albums at the same time, which would be fun, and ridiculous, and make for a bit more fun with cover art and design, which is something I’m really starting to enjoy these days.
#Eenie meenie miney mo lova full#
It can either turn into the most absurdly catchy, disturbingly normal-sounding set of songs I’ve put together in a very long time, with the other album going in the complete opposite direction, full of extended experimental pieces that are among the more out-there things I’ve done in recent memory…or I can throw away the idea of separating things and just let the catchiness and weirdness slam into each other head-on. Either working on another album of all-new material, with a much more long-winded working title, or not.Working on an album of all-new material, with a working title of MY HELLHOUND CROOKED HEART.

But I’m determined to put it together once and for all, and I think if I can do it, and I can do it right, it’ll be something I can be pretty proud of, even if no one else ever has the patience or stamina to wade through it all. If this sounds insane, it’s because it is.

All that music isn’t going to fit on three discs like I originally thought, and it will end up coming out to about five hours of music. As it stands, even with just a hundred songs I estimate it’ll have to be a four-CD set. I figure somewhere down the road I’ll get around to a second volume. This means there will be many songs meant for THE ANGLE OF BEST DISTANCE still waiting for a home when I’m finished, but if I put them all in one place right now the results will be far too impenetrable and overwhelming. My plan is to finish/mix the songs in need of finishing/mixing, record thirty or forty more of my favourites, and then shave things down to about the best hundred tracks and call it a day. Somewhere between seventy and eighty songs have already been recorded in one form or another. Otherwise it’s just going to keep swelling up to increasingly grotesque proportions until I give up on ever coming anywhere near finishing it. I decided it was time to buckle down and conquer the thing while it was still something I might be able to do without imploding. There are now well over two hundred songs that have been written with this album in mind, in addition to countless ideas that range from half-there songs to riffs or sketches not yet fully formed enough to know what they want to be.

“Ambitious” is a bit of an understatement when it comes to this thing.

