So we finished Deathbed more out of lack of computer drive space than lack of ideas...I still think we did a damn decent job on it, considering. And you don't know how long it took us to nail the vocal quartet dub in the bridge...laughing, and laughing, and laughing.

Rhue Street had a couple more guitar dubs on top of the live take, and the vocals were done by Alex and myself later Saturday night. I wrote all the words on a cardboard box outside while Alex, Sophie, and I smoked and talked about Iggy Pop. It's worth a technical note to say that verses 1 and 3 are sung by me, and verses 2 and 4 are sung by Alex.

Black...my one decent song. My one claim to composition perfectionism. The live take sounded good, especially since I waited until everyone was almost too tired to record it...helped the sad waltz vibe considerably. Saturday morning at 8am, hunched over the board feeling sick and weak, being anal about the bass takes...until it just got to that wonderful point of hazy, ringing sadness in your ears, and you know you can lay your head down comfortably and go to sleep.

Astra was 90 percent done from the beginning. Mills and I originally wrote and recorded it as his house about 2 years ago now, when Audinaut was still a functional act. Ben added some final touches to it with a nice ambient keyboard track, and that was it. Besides Ben's synth track and 2 guitar tracks by Mills, all instruments in Astra were played by me (insert self-degrading/self-praising comment here).

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