I have successfully re-entered the musical creative Alex bubble :)
I’ve finally finished a song I’ve been working on for a while called Across The Sea; I’ve been so in love with the verses for it that I’ve struggled to find a chorus that fit until now. I drew a lot of inspiration from the songs in the Very Potter Sequel (“To Have A Home” and “Those Voices” being my favourites) – Darren Criss is so amazing, just on the side. His melodies and song structure are quite brilliant indeed.
I also wrote a new Chameleon Circuit song called The Doctor Is Dying, which I think is better than any Trock song I’ve written before – admittedly I’ve only written three, but still, I really like this one :D An Awful Lot Of Running was always a purple song in my head, and The Doctor Is Dying is a strong red/orange. (I know exactly why that is, though; the original video for AALOR was in my room with purple walls, playing on my purple guitar, and wearing a pink shirt, and I wrote The Doctor Is Dying in my bedroom with the red/orange canvas hanging on the wall, on the yellow notes app of my iPad.)
I don’t like to leave you guys too long without new stuff, but I won’t be putting out a full album for a long while – I’d prefer to promote myself one single at a time, and have four or five single songs released before a third album comes out. It’s an easier way of keeping me fresh in people’s minds, and allows me to give proper focus to the songs I want to draw attention to.
That said – you will be getting an acoustic EP in October. Since people missed the acoustic sound on World Is Mine, I figured I’d take a few of those tracks and guitar them up. The EP won’t be on iTunes, since I still want the World Is Mine tracks to stand as the definitive versions (I didn’t put all that studio time in for nothing) but you’ll be able to grab it physically from DFTBA as a slip-case.
I’ll talk more about the EP sometime next week, tell you what the tracks are, etc. <3
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