Shannow

Apparently this is when I am supposed to become extremely visible.

Instead, I am going offline for a few days.

This is not a promotional technique.

I simply intend to stop looking at things.

Then move into the idea that…

That is a surprisingly difficult sentence to arrive at.

For months, Fat-Cat Democracy has been something I could alter.

A vocal could move.

A guitar could change.

A word could be questioned.

A mix could be reopened for reasons that…

There is criticism.

Then there is hatred.

They are not the same thing.

Criticism says:

This does not work for me.

The lyric is weak.

The mix is muddy.

The song is too long.

The chorus does not earn its…

At this point, there is nothing useful left for me to change.

This is not the same as saying there is nothing I could change.

There is always another vocal level.

Another EQ adjustment.

Another half-second of reverb to distrust.

…

How Do You Promote Music When You Don’t Particularly Want to Talk to Anyone?

I have discovered a flaw in my approach to music.

Apparently, after making it, you are supposed to tell people it exists.

This seems unnecessarily complicated.

…

I have nothing against background music.

Restaurants require something to prevent everyone hearing the conversation at the next table.

Shops appear convinced that purchasing trousers requires a soundtrack.

Fine.

That is not what I made.

Fat-Cat Democracy was written to…

There is an interesting contradiction in modern music production.

It is an audio medium increasingly operated through pictures.

Apparently, the best way to make sound is to look at it.

I cannot rely on that.

So I listen.

That sounds…

A week from now, four songs I have spent far too long examining will stop belonging exclusively to me.

This is probably healthy.

There comes a point where a record needs listeners more than it needs another revision.

On 14…

Anger is useful.

It is also lazy if you leave it alone.

A lot of angry songs begin and end with the same idea:

Something is wrong.

Someone is to blame.

Volume increases.

Song finished.

That can work.

Usually once.

…

I do not believe a song owes the listener comfort.

It owes them honesty.

Those are not the same thing.

There is a habit in storytelling of assuming that darkness has to justify itself by eventually producing light.

The broken…