MUSIC MONDAY ANYONE??
To be fair, I feel like I have a good excuse. I'm in a band.
Terrible excuse.
Okay, so it is a terrible excuse. I justify it though, as such... I cannot be creative across multiple platforms. That's just the truth. I wrote somewhat frequently for a long time. For online music magazines, on this blog, in my own time. Then I started drawing. When I started drawing and painting, the writing dwindled. Then I started playing in a near full-time band. That caused drawing to return to doodling and writing to completely fly out the window.
This is somewhat OK with me though, because making music has always been a dream of mine, and thankfully, due to the ease and overall cost effectiveness (to some) of the recording process, I've been able to live out this fantasy/dream/eagerness over the course of the past 6-9 months or so.
What has been taking control over my thought process and in the course, draining every drop of creative juice to the point of wanting to completely break down and quit every other week or so?
How The Ship Goes Down
The fruit of my (and a few others') labors is this: How The Ship Goes Down. A 7-song EP that marks the first "official" release of a band that I, with the help of a longtime friend and collaborator, started. We call ourselves: WHALERS.
You mean, like Bob Marley and the?
No, more of the nautically themed sort. Yes it was annoying for a while to have to correct people on it, and yes it is sort of an uphill battle that we started ourselves out on unnecessarily, but I personally don't mind it anymore, and it's kind of enjoyable to correct people now.
So, the EP... We're really happy with it. We recorded it at my house in Austin, TX. A friend of a friend's cousin is in a band we're all fans of in Kentucky (Wax Fang) and he offered to mix it for us. We were blown away by the results of that session. We then got it mixed at Public HiFi in Austin, a studio owned by Jim Eno of Spoon.
It was a lot of work, and it wasn't fun all of the time. I understand why bands break up and solo projects start. But we're so happy with the result that any stress that arose from the recording process has dissipated and we're now peddling the album wherever we can.
And on that note?
If you'd like to buy/listen to the album, please visit our bandcamp page here:
Individual songs are available for $1 or the full thing is available for $5 (or more if you feel it is warranted). I ask that you at least visit and give a listen, as this blog has been a venue for any sort of creative output I like to be made public. I feel this is just another chapter for The Foggiest.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far, and I look forward to another Music Monday at some point in the future.
