Well.

If you've been following us for more than, I don't know, three years? you've probably been wondering where the hell this album we're always talking about is.

Well, I'm here to say there will probably be another, entirely different release, or possibly two, before we see AMHF hit the digital shelves. There's a lot of work to be done, and much of it is seriously, seriously expensive. Part of the problem is that it just doesn't sound any good unless we properly record all the orchestral bits, and that is not cheap. Part of the other problem is that we're missing some people. Also part of the problem is that we're missing a good deal of backstory and the something like 20,000 words that will be coming with this record.

So, before you see AMHF, you will, at the very least see one of the following EPs, and probably both:

Chronicide EP

My friend Kyriako immediately complained that I was mixing Greek and Latin in this word, and my response was that mixing languages with no regard for the sanctity of either is a time-honoured English tradition. If you haven't already figured it out, it literally means 'killing time' and that was precisely what we were doing when we started writing some of the tracks that will now be on this record. It's also a bit of a departure from our typical style; we wanted to try to write some concise, two-and-a-half minute pop songs, so there's our own interpretation of that conceit on there.

Something perhaps a little silly about this EP is that we agreed to make a track for every title we could come up with. We put a stop to this three days later when we had twenty-six titles. We've pared it back to 21, but still. 21.

Mistakes or Happenstance EP

This would be, as the title suggests, an EP of a few tracks from the forthcoming album. Quite possible a part of a series of four. On top of some album tracks, there would be some extra tracks that expound upon the characters' stories.

Mistakes would feature Mistakes, Into the Heart of Darkness and probably something from one or two of the characters who crop up around then. Happenstance... I'm hesitant to feature Happenstance on a record. Those of you who might have heard it somewhere - you know why. I'm not putting it on the site, if that's any indication. I like it, a lot - but it's not a friendly song. On the other hand, around the Happenstance part of the record is The Takeover, which is a great track. And I had a remix of Happenstance in mind that could turn out pretty awesome (thinking of using it for live shows, where the whole 7/8 business doesn't go down too well.)

So we'll see about how that pans out when we come to it. In the meantime we're still working on material for Chronicide and really pulling together the live show.

 

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