Last night heralded another highly successful Foilface night down the studio. We are now two tunes to the greater and things are progressing nicely.
The first of our new (as yet unfinished) tunes is, ‘Pill Drink’. A delighful ode to drinks that accompany the taking of medicine. In many ways it’s the ballad of a disillusioned joe (‘no-one famous ever came from Milton Keynes… no good stories ever came from Stoke-on-Trent and no-one erotic ever came from East Kilbride’). Which begs the question – Is it a slacker rock mockery of the UK’s provincial towns? Answer – No, it’s a rambling stare at 21st century consumerism as it thrashes about burning on the floor, crying for help and spitting at unhelpful strangers as it draws it’s final breaths. Kind of.
The second tune (told you we’re prolific!) is (probably) called, ‘Last Bastions’. It’s another Foilface ‘wonky ballad’ and I like to think it’s an intergalactic love song involving space ravens (even though it’s not really). I say the words ballad and love song with gritted teeth as they instantly make me think of Celine Dion, Enrique Inglesias, Mariah Carey and all those other plastic-faced, doggerel wafting clowns. Either way it’s an ode to something beautiful and seemingly lost and it builds into a meaty mini-prog beast of a tune come the second half. Think Kings of Convenience meets early-Genesis and your three eighths of the way there.
Anyway, we’ve got lots of tunes in various stages of completion (plus some free ones available to download on this site) at the moment and the next task is mixing them and deciding on how we present things. A batch of 5-track EPs seems like a good idea. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime remember ‘music matters‘…
