A New Dimension

This could sound odd but the project just took on a new dimension.
I’m aware that all this may sound stupidly pretentious but anyway: everything in the creation of an album, for me, is a strange intuitive journey – in music, of course, but also in colours and textures. Every lyric has specific colours and nuances in it, every song has textures; a feeling, a visual landscape.
And the further I get in writing an album, the more specific I feel about what I’m lacking.
“It needs more red and orange, and it needs more sharp edges / soft corners / steep ascends / metal / wood”. Could be anything.
To some extent that makes it easier the further I get because I know what I’m looking for. But in another way it makes it harder as it’s much less free.

Alas, in an attempt to set myself free, I’ve started from scratch again!

I’ve picked 10 of the working titles I haven’t yet dived into and I’ve decided to think of them as a new and separate project. A more philosophical, critical project as opposed to the “happy flow” I’ve gone with so far.
All these 10 very simple titles reflect issues of this modern life we live, love and loathe.
These kinds of songs are not easy to write. Partly because it’s hard to get around “an issue” in 4 minutes and on rhyme.
And partly because you can’t go straight at “the issue”. You need an angle. Otherwise it’ll end up sounding pathetic, naïve, preaching, etc.
It’s likely these songs will never see the light of day.
Maybe a few of them will make it onto the album, we’ll see.
But either way it feels like a great playground right now.