The New Album

This is a good time for me right now. People are actually responding really postively to the latest product I've been involved in. My band's CD is now being enjoyed by those around me and the response is very positive. I devoted quite a lot of time to creating it, and it is so good to see it starting to reciprocate. Seven Car Pileup - Seven Car Pileup was my love child. I really belive there is something on there for almost everybody. We cover quite a range of alternative flavors of American rock and roll. Saying it is alternative is more saying it isn't verbatim copies of those genres, but more a Tempe based rock band having fun with composition and a farily diverse amount of arangement styles. There are quite a few things I'm proud of. Hell, why don't I go through each song and say what I love the most about it... I never do anything like this so hummor me.

Sucker Punch - My best lyrics, maybe ever. A ego-less vulnerable exploration of what it means to be a twenty something in today's America.

Outta My Mind - The funkiest song my band's ever done. Makes you want to shake your money maker.

The Apprehension of Hope - Maybe the most heart-felt exploration of politics ever recorded. This is a lot of people's favorite song on the album. I'm completely blown away by that, but in some ways I'm not really.

Oxymoron - I think this song is great. It could possibly be a year or so ahead of it's time, but I don't care.

Steve McQueen - A riff-rocker, my first one that worked, and just snarky enough to not be taken too seriously.

Lets Be Hippies - A really beautiful sentiment that I think a lot of people can relate too.

In Your Pocket - Possibly the hardest song to write on this album. The lyrics are me writing from somebody else's perspective and at the same time my perspective. It's so mixed up and jangled of the life that was happening around me at the moment that it can't be interpreted as anything else than a bitter explosive abstract ballad.

Control - This song is about a concept that I think nobody ever talks about: the idea of how we attempt to create systems of order in our lives when things are completely out of our control. It may be the hardest song to get on the album, but when you do I think it's possibly the most poignant song on it.

New DNA - I'm so proud that this song follows Control. This song is talking about the power of grace and forgiveness in our lives, and how it doesn't come from within our selves, but from somewhere/one higher.

Cardboard Nation - A punk-rock tirade speaking to America's excessive consumerist culture, and the packing supply of choice.

2' (two foot) Ponds - A shallow love song with a groove that just won't stop, and a very heavy fun chorus.

Windless - Maybe the first ever punk bossanova. I love this arrangement style. I'll have to try and convince the band to write another song in this vein.