Got in a voice call with most of the band today. We sifted down a tracklist of roughly 16 tracks to about 11 or so (not counting [REDACTED]), inserting a song from our attempt at February Album Writing Month this year - which is still going on - and removing stuff that either wasn’t written yet or didn’t have the vibes to go on the first one. I don’t wanna spoil too much, but the two original songs will be on the album, just rerecorded or in slightly different forms.

Recorded a demo of a song called IT Cat for FAWM today. Immediately rerecorded the vocal part and added a real guitar part mixed in with the synth guitar. It’s basically done at this point, we’ll see if it goes on the album.

I still need to work on iCube. I added too much to it last time I tried expanding it for the album and it just kinda became a mess - also need to rerecord the vocal parts because at present it’s kinda embarrassing.

Need to retrack vocals for Bloom And Doom and the rhythm guitar during the outro (the latter has a pop in it from audio gremlins invading my PC).

Sleepin’ (do I really want that to be the title? whatever I’ll decide later)... I dunno how to work on the lyrics to that, but instrumentally I think it’s mostly done. It feels like it’s missing *something*, though I just dunno what.

I’ll deal with Sunny Side Up later.

- JS

Today was quite a productive day for the production of the album! We curated the tracklist (as Jordan stated), creating a much finer and polished tracklist. There's still the order of tracks to worry about, but I guess that's something we can figure out once we have everything close to completion. I mourn for the outtakes, but the ones we cut are already being planned to be reutilized in some form.

I came up with an idea for an "interlude" just now, involving flipping through radio stations, parodying various things. This is very much inspired by the Farkle tracks placed throughout the Logan Whitehurst discography. I don't know why I thought to share this here, but it's currently on my mind.

I need to work on 2 primary things at the moment: Good Morning and Bloom And Doom, both of which I decided to restart from scratch earlier. However, I don't know if I will follow through with this choice. Bloom And Doom had various issues, including a discrepancy somewhere that resulted in the vocals being obnoxiously out of sync, despite being in the same BPM throughout. Therefore, maybe starting anew for the instrumental might fix this? Not sure. As for Good Morning, I'm very indecisive of whether or not to use the original, slower version or the newer iteration, which is much more energetic and a little "punk"-ish. The OG is more developed, which makes me think that I'll go with the original, but who knows. The album has no real deadline, and there's plenty of room for messing around with things.

Other, lesser priorities are: A) contacting the engineer we had in mind for mixing and mastering the album and B) finalizing the bonus tracklist. A doesn't really need to be done until after all the recording is done (save maybe for some final touches), but I want to get that squared away before we forget. As for B, that's probably warranting another whole-group call. There's more things I need to get done, but this entry is long enough. I hope to update soon. Good night!

- SG