You can also preview the entire thing on YouTube. Coming soon to iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, and other digital services!
Soundtrack is a return to instrumental songs, and includes several deep remixes of previously-released tracks. In some ways, these versions feel even truer to their essence. And there's lots of completely new music, too!
I titled this Soundtrack largely because I'm inspired by the Synthwave movement in electronic music. As an 80s/90s kid, I grew up loving synthesizer-based soundtracks. Especially horror! So when I discovered Synthwave through Spotify (Try saying that a few times fast!) I was thrilled by these soundtracks to movies that... well, they DO exist. As music!
And this is the kind of stuff I've been doing since the early 90s, when my Dad gave me full use of his 80s synths and 4-track cassette deck! Even then, as an adolescent, I was recording a mix of sinister soundscapes and danceable beats. The raw warmth of those oversaturated cassettes still informs my sonic aesthetic. (Some early stuff, at least from my teens, is in last year's T2L release: Little Monsters.)
This album has been gestating in my mind for at least a year. Aside from a few humorous songs and parodies, lyrics were starting to feel forced. And if the lyrics didn't come, I'd let an exciting instrumental track sit on the dusty digital shelf. I'd been craving the abstract purity of music alone, but kept feeling like I should be writing songs "about things." (Funnily enough, I tend to write abstract lyrics anyway!)
Then a dear friend asked me for an instrumental for his ritual magic playlist. From there, I kept on digging for songs that belonged together in the album I had envisioned. It became a magical process of its own, so intense that I had to dedicate a song to Odin!
As much as I've been wanting to make this record, little did I realize how much it would mean to me. I'm very excited to share this with you! Why try to act cool about it? After all, my specialty isn't just darkness. It's WACKY darkness! Because everything is wacky when you think about it enough...
If you just can't wait to start listening, here's the aforementioned video. Thanks for your support!
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