recording

Another step towards getting the next track out for Christmas...we spent most of yesterday re-recording the vocals for Big Ideas. Im glad we did it as the old takes were from 4 years ago and were a bit rough around the edges. However, the song isn't an easy one to sing over and over it was one hell of a slog (sorry Paul)! The new keyboard lines Steve layed down last week are sounding good, now its over to Paul to get all the guitars and mixing finished, theres a lot to be done!

Meanwhile I've got a couple of weeks to get a video together...

Big Ideas vocals

...to release the next new track in time for Xmas. Not sure if we'll make it but we're going to try!
 
Ross and I will be recording the vocals to the song tomorrow and then there'll be just under 2 weeks to record all the whizz bang extra bits (bass, drums, keys and some guitars done already), mix and master it. It all hinges on nailing the vocals quickly tomorrow, so I'm off to bed.

Two weekends ago, ACAS ventured out into deepest Sussex to film a promo video for the third new track to be released from our upcoming second album. The song is called ‘Green Scenery’ and in essence is about how living/working in the city means not ever getting to see the great British countryside. So we thought it fitting to get out and do the shoot at the visually very impressive Cuckmere Haven floodplains. Ironically, given the sentiment of the song, nature turned against us somewhat – choosing to cover the valley first with mist, and then later rain.

Ross, Steve and I met up on Friday evening to continue the slow but sure progress on the album. We have decided on the next song to be completed, and Steve re-did his draft parts that we had in place. We hope to get this next one – called Green Scenery – out within the month. It might be a tall order as we've become rather perfectionist about these new songs, but we do want to push ahead and get them out for all of you to hear.
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Despite radio silence for the past week or two, plenty has been going on behind the scenes – recording sessions aplenty have been focused on working up the album version of All the Wasted Hours (a rough rehearsal recording of which we posted in the bonus section a few months ago). As with Words for the Living, we plan to let you hear the song as soon as it's finished as a taster for the album.
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