Change of plans... + new tour!

collage by Lindsay

We've been loving it here in San Francisco, but have realized that we aren't ready to put down roots. So we've concocted a plan for a new project that really has been brewing in our subconscious for quite some time now. The project is called 'drift' and we're going to travel around the USA writing and recording in different places, posting the recordings on our bandcamp page, and writing about the whole process on the blog here.

Ever since we started this blog, we haven't really had a very good idea of what we were doing with it. But now that we have a project in mind, we are going to be posting a lot more frequently and focusing more on what's going on inside our heads in this creative process.

Lindsay and I (me especially) are both über-perfectionists and can easily get overly critical of ourselves. I think that's been one of the things keeping us from putting out more new material over these past few years since we released Cardboard Wings. We've got a few dozen half-finished songs, ideas and incomplete thoughts lying around that we would first be excited about and then abandon thinking "it's not good enough." Recently we were going back through all these song peices on our digital 8-track recorder and were pretty surprised by some of the things we had on there. "Why did we abandon this!?!?" So we have a new determination to finish what we started and also to write a lot more new material without being overly critical. This whole project is going to be an exercise in opening the creative flood gates.

When our lease runs out here in SF, we are headed to LA for a few weeks. One of Lindsay's best friends in an Imagineer for Disney. She has a pretty amazing job designing interactive rides for theme parks and is going to be out of town so we'll have the place to ourselves to do some serious wood shedding.

We've got an EP coming out soon that we recorded with our friend Thomas (from the band the Torches) in my parent's basement in Northern Virginia, and another new EP that we recorded in our bedroom here in San Francisco (Powerlines EP).

After LA we are touring back across the country and down the east coast. Check our MySpace page for the latest tour dates.

Lots of stuff on the horizon...

overwhelmed but excited,
Cliff