Blog

Another old one, at least musically. 

I first uploaded a (very bad) version of it to the internet in 2006 or so. That one was more space-rock – it had acoustic guitars, vocals, the works. …

No, this is not a song about being ready for the Phantom. It’s inspired by one of the wildest and grandest conspiracy theories I think I’ve ever come across – that HUNDREDS of years of history are missing.
…

Each year, I seem to end up writing at least one darkly humorous pseudo-disco song. 

This one was originally penned in 2017, and it’s about how everyone here thinks Asians are bad drivers – when …

This little musical interlude has its roots in a seven-minute electronic instrumental I recorded almost 20 fucking years ago called ‘Advice Like This’. 

Believe it or not, the original demo was programmed on a PlayStation …

Wrote this one in 2015. It hasn’t changed a lot since the original demo, just got bigger production, better synths and a crazier vocal mix. 

What’s it about? Um, I think it might be about …

This one was first written in 2015 or ’16 – I’ve lost the original demo so I’m not sure. It had words and everything, but no amount of my tweaking of the melody could make it work for my voice, …

I wrote this tune the day they confirmed a skeleton found beneath an English carpark belonged to the English king, Richard III. I woke up planning to write something a bit odd, but needed a topic. Opening up the …

In 2018, I wrote a lot of stripped-back indie-rock songs, many of which ended up on ‘Short Sharp Shocks’. Amidst that burst of writing, I got the urge to write something darker and more dissonant – without any guitars.

This …

If you’d told me a couple of months ago this would be the album‘s opening track, I would have thought you were crazy.

For as long as the album was in production – two …