Post album release

Dudes.

So, Joe and I finished the last few songs for the album on Tuesday, we had the artwork and we decided it was time to make it public.

Since then, life has been AWESOME; you guys have got us up to nearly 1000 plays on the Soundcloud, we've spoken to web-radio stations, had someone offer to design a website for us.. no Vikki Blows quite yet, but I'm sure she's just busy.. ;)

So, how did it feel to get it out?

Cathartic, I mean for me the whole album writing process was a catharsis for how I was feeling at the time, what I'd been doing and my general mood over the past few months, as The Angry Seed started with "Valentine" and evolved from there.
I feel a great sense of relief now that I know people are hearing me out / enjoying it to boot!

Leftovers?
Yeah, we have a few, "Bloodsuckers" didn't make the album, despite being finished a while ago; my intention with this track in particular is to save it for "The Night Shift EP" as a B-Side of the album, but I'm going to have a friend of mine record the vocals, due to it having a much more.. well suited to him feel about it!

"Happy Hour" is also sat around, with all but the vocals tracked; the issue there is that I couldn't decide who I wanted to sing on it, so my intention with that is to record a version with my voice and a version with Joe's voice and release them on the same disc, I think!

Other than that, it's mostly half done songs or sets of lyrics and riffs left over, I have a few acoustic songs that are ready to be used, such as "Table Wine" which is going on the EP, but the rest will probably see the light of day at an intermediate release between that and the next album!

I'm avoiding saving songs for the album, due to not wanting to be singing about stuff that was then and not appropriate to how I feel now; My belief with the Angry Seed is that if I cannot give a solid performance and have people hear my emotions, then I'd rather not do it at all!

The future?

Play the album to my flat mates tonight, get trashed and work out what I want to do tomorrow!

Then work on some songs that may or may not be for TAS; they have a bit more of a horror / sleazey feel, but we'll see!

OTHER NEWS?!

Joe approached me a week or two ago about releasing a companion EP to The Angry Seed, of songs written by members that weren't entirely appropriate for the final album, so that's gonna be worked on soon!

Along with that, I'm busy working on cleaning the songs up for the radio "**** you saint Valentine" doesn't really have the impact.. but hey!

And finally, I'm still working on "The Last Of The Panel Shows" which is a collection of demos and songs from my musical career (lololol) so far, that'll crop up one day soon!

Take it easy!

Stay Angry <3
James
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