A day of work on the new album. It seems that the final tracks and order are complete, the titles now are as follows:
Violet Night
Another Dead Morning
Breakfast Of Delight
The Parents In The Walls
Daytime Teevee
How Lonely
The Tainted Pain
Smashing My House Of Cards
Fear Is Everywhere
All Controlled By Someone
More
Walls And How To Hit Them
Structurally, my plan was that the first 9 tracks form a group, and three groups of three, but this is much less apparent now, and today I added an extra minute-long intro to 'All Controlled By Someone' which plays on the imagery of that song, and some of the primary thema of the album; the music in 'Fear Is Everywhere'. 'More' can thematically link too, as it's about commercialism, and there are lots of classic television clips in here, so the structure spans the entire album, with 'Walls' as a scherzo-like epilogue.
Most of the day was spent balancing tracks (bless my 'relative, tuned spectrum analyser'! This Prometheus feature has transformed my music more than almost any other), adjusting, musing. A lot of work had gone into 'Daytime Teevee', which it proving troublesome to mix and get quite right. The darker and more complex tracks are my favourites, though all are rather short and disparate. At the moment, it's very much an art-pop album, almost in the style of Sparks, but with a unified theme and limited fun or joy; the mood is darker. More work and more musing is required.
