I've Been Writing An Album

So about a few weeks back, I was in Toronto with some friends

And I was dealing with a lot of feelings of burnout, getting pretty angry and depressive and loathsome

It didn't help that it was mostly a music-oriented trip, and that in our group, almost everyone else was or is a musician except for me

Then it hit me- I may not be able to play instruments, but I can sing, write and am good with planning

So I've been writing- a lot of lyrics, and a lot of ideas

So long story short, album prep

Don't fully know how I'm gonna connect all of this to the planned central theme, but I know what the sound will be- little tiny shards of massively different prog-heavy rock

Bits of jazz funk, bossa nova, R&B, country, blues, punk, psychedelic rock and a lot of other elements- plus probs Britpop, grunge, shoegaze and a bit of Romo and Cool Cymru- so just a lot of sort of angst filled British and American stuff

So far got about close to 5 songs either done with or near completion

All together, got about 12 to 17 sets of lyrics thought up and in need of finishing and polishing

Plan to have a long 18 song album, with a three or four piece suite to finish it off- and a potentially very long prologue

May be a double album type of kind of project

Just needed something to really have my creative juices get into- wanted to get back into the arena and really have something I could visually and mentally sink myself into

So there- that's my big plan for this year

My very late New Year's resolution, if you will

Plan to have lyric writing done in about half a month

Music writing, instrumentals, vocals and a plan plus covers and getting people together will take much longer- so except about a year or two's worth of updates and work on it

Hope to make something beautiful out of this little concept though

Really somewhat dedicated to be honest

Gonna go now

Thanks for the space