I can't quite recall the order we recorded the tracks in, but I know we started with a cover of Radiohead's "The National Anthem". I got a lot of interesting sounds out of my guitar by playing an e-bow and a slide through every effect pedal I had, and we really dug the bass and keyboard sounds Alex and Ben were creating.

Somewhere along the course of the night, live takes of Marooned Spaceman, Black, When I Find My Deathbed At The Bottom Of The Sea, and Rhue St. Depression were recorded. All of them proved to be pretty lengthy, except Black, which is just under 5 minutes.

Spaceman clocked in at 11 1/2 minutes, and Deathbed is an extensive 15. Atleast no one can say we understate ourselves in the studio. Live, it's no problem playing one song for 30 minutes, but in the studio it's a different story and a much harder task to perform. But we tried our hardest, to entertain ourselves in our ideas before we threw our arms up in frustrated resignation, to not go too far into art-rock oblivion.

The next day I wasn't awake until about 2pm, since we stayed up recording until 6am the night before. It took a while to get the back and neck pain (from sleeping on the floor in the studio) to go away. Sophie and I walked to the nearest convenience store for our breakfast, and returned to the studio where dub work on Deathbed was already underway. I think somewhere before I woke up, Viking Song was recorded.


Alex and Mills must have snuck it in there while I was dreaming about God knows what. That's fine. It's still a good song, albeit an unexpected one (a 2 minute metal waltz really stands out among 10 minute-plus psychedelic voyages). It will be a lot of fun to play live, complete with multiple guitar walls-of-sound and the most grating, ear-bleeding noise jams ever heard on this earth. Hey, it's what we're good at, if anything...making the kids sleep and waking the kids back up again...all in 3/4 time.


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