I miss the podcast.

I miss recording and editing late at night and leaving my mess for the world to see, I mean, hear. I miss putting up tracks as soon as they’re recorded. I miss that.

But, as you may well know, I am hard at work writing and recording new songs. This is an update. So you can stay metacognitive on all things aegis. Did you know that I like lowercase and bold? I do. Apparently, I also like not finishing songs before I start new ones. ‘Cause that’s what I’ve been doing. But don’t think that I’m disappointed or in despair over that. Quite the contrary, I’m ecstatic at getting so much material down. Plus, coming back to songs after giving them a break gives some much needed perspective. November’s looking very good as a release target date. I’ll have, of course, a concrete date soon. And then I’ll be back with a new podcast.

Genres. I know people need to have ways of qualifying and categorizing music to make it easier to describe. But really, isn’t that just lazy. Can’t you just say,”It’s melodic song-writing using harsh and artificial sounds in a pop song format”? Or is it easier to say Industrial Indie-tronica or Darkwave or Coldwave or- what the hell does any of that mean? Who makes up these labels?

The next album’s going to be Country. I mean, the next album’s going to be Country and Western music category, a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States that roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music. Okay, maybe genres aren’t so bad after all…

~aegis