Seattle Studio Diary. Post Two

Well we've been here four days and the jet lag is subsiding. We haven't had time to venture into the big city yet but we have had time to visit a coffee booth round the corner where a mocha is served to you by a girl in a bikini. Tasty. Tracking for the album is well underway too. Tickle Me Pink is coming on a treat and The Box is sounding like a lunging Waitsian monster full of aggression and vigour.

So, things are progressing nicely. All in all there are thirteen tracks to record in contention for a spot on the album, and I think that all thirteen will be good enough to make the cut. On the wall of the control room in the studio are sellotaped 13 A4 sheets containing the name of each song to be done and who is to play what on it. I find this quite an oddly exciting sight. For the first time in a fair while I have a real sense that what we are doing here is making an album, a cohesive thing with its own parts and scenes and stages. I just hope to God that we manage to express in the recordings our sense of fidelity to our original ideas and our sense of appreciation of the moment and place that the songs find themselves in now.