Tracks:
If You Don't, I Do
The World We Knew
Animals (Give Him a Title)
New Pacific
Running time: 9:38
This .m3u plays a stream of the album.
This .zip contains the entire album as VBR V1 .mp3.
If you would prefer to download the songs individually in FLAC or mp3 format, and for a large version of the album art, please see this entry at archive.org.
As always, thank you for your listening time.
Trivia:
I forgot to write a funny song for this record.
If I waited any longer, I would a) start picking away at it, deleting songs or b) get stuck. This is why the record is less than ten minutes long. Plus, I like thinking of it as one of those 33rpm 7" records with two songs on each side.
Each song started in its own way. If You Don't, I Do began with ukulele and vocal. Animals was originally a five-and-a-half minute guitar and vocal improvisation. The World We Knew and New Pacific were made from strings separated from two of Jennifer's songs and edited.
If You Don't, I Do was originally a ukulele cover of a Soul song from 1974. It now bears no resemblance to the song that inspired it, especially since I got the chords wrong to begin with. The string section sat on my hard drive for months before I did anything with it. It was the first song written for this e.p., and has the fewest lyrics of any C2 song ever.
The World We Knew has the same narrator as on Beneath the Weeds from our first album. The worktape of this song is labeled "Home on the Range" because of the similarity in the intro.
Animals (Give Him a Title) was the most difficult to make and to keep. The setting is the same as in Officer, Please and Where No Man's Eyes May Go. The hidden verse is 'Take him down / give the man a shroud / and give him a title. Remaining friends / we will not forget / what led him to find us."
New Pacific is based on Jennifer's song Pacific, from our first album.
The style of this record is something I've wanted to do for a very long time. I can't thank Jennifer enough for arranging and recording all the strings. We don't always agree on what is the best music to do, and she indulged me a great deal on this one.
