#earthsoundstudio

Tallahassee, Fla. - This is the final stretch. Tomorrow is supposed to be our last recording day. We still have to record five songs on vocals, back up vocals, keys and lead guitars to 6 songs. haha

We’re too broke to buy creamer, so we’re drinking our coffee black. Will probably snag a handful at a gas station tomorrow. 

Fun Fact: Reid and I are wearing Crocs right now.

I’m going home to Jacksonville tomorrow. Also is it acceptable for bands to put skits in albums?

Peace out world,

Valdosta Ga. - Okay, so we’re just a bit behind schedule. Losing one day of recording really fucked us and now we’re paying for it. I recorded and finished rhythm guitar, even started vocals. We still haven’t started lead guitar. 

The commute from Tallahassee is dichotomous. In the morning, it’s colorful, the road is smooth and the sky is mostly blue. But at night it’s dark as hell, the roads are skinnier and brown truck behind you reminds you not to take a wrong turn. 

After finishing guitar, Lee and I spent two hours trying microphones until we agreed on a CAD with a gold grille. Hell yeah. We then finished the night by tracking vocals for three songs. Tomorrow (which is technically today?) we’re going to do more vocals and hopefully all of Reid’s guitar. 

Valdosta, Ga. - Murphy’s law don’t got anything on Glazed. Seriously, we are on schedule! 

Day three began with gray skies, heavy rain, light hail, wet roads and bass guitar. Recording music can be trying at times. Especially when you’re playing the same song over and over and over and over again until you hook the golden take. But all we can do is hope the public will enjoy it, because we’re putting 110% of our willpower into this record. 

There’s a total of 10 songs, possibly 11. We’re rerecording four songs from & Confused. Why? Because we want to give them the quality we know they deserve. See, songs are like children, they grow up, get weird, make mistakes and learn from them. In other words, even our old songs aren’t exactly the songs we recorded in St. Augustine last summer. There are subtle changes we made to them that give them a fresher angle.

So, how about the new songs? I would say we wrote them with a pop sensible mindset, while remembering our roots at the same time. They are still punk rock af, but with pinches of the right amount of mass appeal - a song called “Tyler’s Song” is perhaps the black sheep compared to our entire discography. It’s a song Skylor Leblanc and I wrote in his attic two or so years ago while in a short-lived band called Brat Pack. Sidenote: The only show we ever played was with Joyce Manor (NAME DROP) three years ago. We had a three-song set list that consisted of a Kid Dynamite cover and two original songs. One being “Tyler’s Song” and the other being “Chelsea, Lately.”

We ate Hip Hop Chicken for dinner. I’m starting to think our band’s favorite food is fried chicken. Seriously. We are always down to eat fried chicken. 

Tomorrow, we start guitar - the moment Reid and I have been waiting for these past three days. There are many guitars to choose from, most can be heard on fairly well-known songs, too.............. Will we base our selection on superstition???? Find out tomorrow!