Time has flown by, our last gig in 2008 was September 19th, after this gig we became more focused on getting ready for the recording studio. At B-Town studio's in Burlington, Ontario we demo'ed 10 songs live off the floor in early November. At the end of November, in 3 days we re-tracked 10 songs, this time taking a bit longer to get better sounds and re-work a few arrangements. We spent almost an entire day just on "Your Light Pulses" after scrapping the initial version and trying to come up with a groove that make the song what we thought is should be, it ended up as one of our stronger songs.

In December we worked on some final touches to "Your Light Pulses", giving it a rough mix to hear where it might want to go. We decided to re-record "Mother" with a real piano as the main sound; which we're hoping to redo in early 2009. And figured that "Swim" would be a good song as the first release. Later in Jan '09 we'll be finishing up guitars and percussion on Swim, and experimenting with piano parts along with vocal tracking. So far this song is sounding as big as the open ocean. Hoping to get this track finished in Feb and up on the site. 

Finished off 2 more songs this week for the album. It's looking like a 10 song album is making the best sense to our ears. Won't be playing the 2 newest songs tonight at the Reverb, but we do have some other recent additions in the set.

Thur. Aug 13, 2008 - Noise Violation
Got our 2'nd noise violation notice from my condo manager... for playing the acoustic guitar.


Song writing
After playing live a few times to feel out the songs we hit some inspiration and wrote a few more songs. We think these are the best batch so far, so now we're at about 20 finished songs, and another 10 in the works.

Thur. Aug 14, 2008: Metalworks Studio
We're doing a private showcase/open mike at Metalworks Studio's in Mississauga.

Fri. July 25, 2008: Savana Room
10pm show time.

Studio Time
We're set to enter the studio in August, 2008 with producer Justin Koop in Burlington, ON, Canada. Justin was nominated for a Juno Award in Canada and played guitar in Mugwump when Carl was on drums. The current plan is to record 1 acoustic guitar, and 1 vocal, with little to no overdubs. If all goes well a release will be ready in Sept.

Working title is "Escapism Generation". With some song titles:

• Freedom Star
• Escapism Generation Waste
• Don't Let Them Drag You Down
• Your Light Pulses
• Hell Breaks Loose