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The Making of India, Seattle (1/3)

I thought I would throw down some thoughts about the making of and recording of my new record. So here it is in three parts

I don’t think personal records are the most immediate, maybe it’s that they’re too specific. And mine is specific. It’s specific about places, moments and snapshots in my mind. It’s specific to people.

I made this record, I called it India, Seattle.

I wrote it one northwest winter, recorded it the next and many winters later, it will still be here reminding me.

I have had a lot of trouble really articulating what this album is about, other than the abstract monologue that I wrote for the East Shore West Shore video. It is specific, but I think it is also universal. It’s about hope, heartache, heartbreak and than hope again. I could probably talk about the sonic qualities of this record, about the technical details of why the chorus of the song ‘Julia’ sounds so cool, or about the vibey, verbed out vocals on ‘Thought About July’ or what I did differently the third time I recorded East Shore West Shore and got it right. But to me, the actual songs themselves are what are most important on this record.

I love them. And I hate them.

I spent a lot of time thinking, and wondering when writing and recording this record. I also spent a lot of sleepless nights because my life and this record were so intertwined. These songs are things that I love so much because they are true, but also I hate them because some of them hurt actually.

These are some of my favourite records though, ones that have some weight to them. Where you can just feel it when you listen. There is something that is incarnate in the sound, where you know that it is more than just a jumble of sound, or more than some technical people hitting drums and pressing buttons and using electricity to record some sounds and put them together. I think there is love and life and loss in this record and those are things that are specific to all of us, but also things that we can all hold universally as well.