Unlucky For Some [Now Available!]
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Ok, I admit it, it’s taken me a while to write this, but at least it’s here now! My fourth studio album “Unlucky For Some” is now available for purchase, on both CD and iTunes (Amazon MP3 should be selling it soon, too, but I haven’t seen any evidence of this yet). As this album was always intended to be released on multiple platforms, I’ve done something a bit different with this album and released a bonus track that’s only available via either of the methods. On the CD, you get the bonus track “Unrequited“, which is a rocky love song that wasn’t included officially on the album due to similarities of it to a song belonging to Jimmi (Who voiced his displeasure at this). The other track, which is available with the iTunes download, is a remix of “Prepare for the Attack” by the Fall of Industry (check out Industry’s Myspace for more details – they’re really good!). Personally, I love it and I’m rather jealous I couldn’t do something like it on the actual album.
Like most music, there’s not much I can do to testify this album through words. I could always try writing it through the use of “DUN DUN DUN”s but you might not get the right idea. I mean, “DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN” is meant to be “Just Because You Can, It Doesn’t Mean You Should“, but I bet you don’t know what it sounds like. So here’s the “Making Of” video with the song “Red Letter Day” as it’s soundtrack. I didn’t actually record any of this while making the album, but it just about shows what happened; lots of lonely nights in my room spent pretending I’m a rock star.
Unlike my last albums, this album was created on my shiny new iMac. One of the big differences between the two processes was that, with the computer, I could do a lot more in terms of sounds, editing and automation. Whereas before I was limited to using the instruments in my possession, on this album I could conduct a whole orchestra without lifting much more than a finger. For me, I feel this helped me experiment and create a much more gratifying sound. In many ways, if you’re not a fan of this album, you’ll probably be a fan of the next as the novelty of MIDI instruments will have worn off by then. I think the only track on the album without any MIDI instruments is “Getting Over You“.
Out of all the tracks on the album, though, my favourite has to be “Red Letter Day“. I think this is because I believed for so long that this song was going to cut from the album, yet has actually turned out pretty impressive by my standards. The only time I felt truly happy about it was about a week before the album’s finalisation, where I added the lead guitar part to it (the main one you hear when the song kicks in). So I think I’m just relieved that I got it to sound great in the end. That, and my voice sounds sexy when I woman-ify it (Yes, you weren’t imagining that).
The last real thing I can say about this album, I guess, is that it’s the first album I’ve really tried to push out there. Maybe it’s the first album I’m truly proud of. Maybe it’s because I’ve gigged since I worked on my last albums. Maybe I just feel more inspired by my older age, knowing that I’ve not got much youth left. Who knows? But all I know is that I want anyone and everyone to get their mitts on it, even if I have to pry into their cold, dead hands.
