Four years ago (in 2022!), I started working on the follow-up to Grand Architects of the Universe. It was actually planned to be two albums.
As Jeffrey Beaumont said, “It’s a strange world, isn’t it?”
Now it’s a single album (as of now, 17 alleged tracks, over an hour long).
It’s got complicated instrumentals and absurd vocal-oriented songs about robots, Buddhism, and of course, parking backwards.
Here’s the latest. I’m going to be wealthy because it’s quite a hit:
You can hear over 60 demos and rough mixes on Patreon. More details about that below.
It’s a very… Sir Millard Mulch album, in spirit.
And in a way, I hope it’s my last.*
Why? No coincidence: it ties into the album concept. And I’ll share a lot more about that when it’s done — likely in the form of an essay.
In the meantime, here’s a detailed chart of my production progress:
As you can see by all the green stuff, the majority of the songs have finished lyrics and demos, and are ready for Travis Orbin to get beginned doing his drummerizing. After that… some final overdubs, mixing, and mastering. (I also need to locate my cover artist Lance Myers, if anyone has heard from him…)
Throughout the process, I’m uploading demos and rough mixes. On Patreon, you can listen to over 60 of them in this collection:
I try to post at least one new demo or rough mix per week. So if you want to follow along as I develop the music from cheap MIDI piano sketches into prog-metal disasters, get in there.
*I predicted The De-Evolution of Yasmine Bleeth EP would be my last, back in 2001.