Rough Track #4: The Seamstress
On October 19th, 2008, Jim and I recorded this idea of a song. I threw some lyrics together and Jim layered several guitar tracks and we thought a proper song could form from this, eventually:
We kept going and added two or three more movements and on July 21st, 2009, this mix was bounced and sent to the other band members, with my note:
how is this song ever going to be good? it’s all garbled and stupid.
And then ten minutes later, Matt wrote:
the mix of the two guitars in the intro is just obnoxious. that might be the source of your frustration.
then it goes into the middle part, which should thump, but it doesn’t, because you’ve left everything to sustain instead of go THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP
then we go into three, where it gets sleepy ‘cause it’s all drone organ and guitar noodling
plus the whole thing follows absolutely zero dynamic arc.
i think just what’s happened is that the things that make the song great (because it is a great song) are being ignored/pushed aside. i imagine i’m about to give a similar reply to birds.
