August in the studio. The heat does what it always does, stripping back my instincts to something more minimal, making excess feel wrong and space feel right. It is a good time of year to be making the kind of music Fragile World is turning out to be.
I am deep in the sessions right now. Some tracks are pretty much finished. Others are still moving around, finding their final form. This is the stage of making an album where you can feel the shape of it without yet being able to fully see it. You know roughly how many tracks there will be and roughly how they will sit together, but the specifics are still being negotiated.
The summer material has a particular quality that I think comes from the season. There is a spaciousness to what I am making right now, a willingness to let things breathe that feels connected to the long evenings and the particular quality of light in August. Whether that quality will survive the mixing process and make it onto the finished record I can’t say yet. Sometimes the character of a recording session doesn’t translate. But I hope it does.
Fragile World is still not close to being finished. I want to be honest about that rather than creating false expectation. What it is, is pointing consistently in a direction that I believe in completely.
That is enough for now.
