ELGIB Track By Track - Intro

I thought you'd all be interested in how the album was put together, and might appreciate a track-by track introduction, mostly to give you something to read whilst listening to the tracks on this site. So the next dozen posts will give you a mix of geeky and arty insights into Everyone Looks Good In Black (that's ELGIB for short you know). Here goes...

After many years of writing for and playing guitar in bands, I finally decided to go it alone. I was done with the constant rolling-rehearsal feel of working in a four piece, and the temptation to become lazy with what you do and how you arrange often led to producing what sounded like the same song over and over again.

So I took a long break and started to mess around more. I learned how to record properly and built my own small "project studio" where I could finally get near to some of the sounds that I had always been after but been far too poor/busy/lazy to achieve. I spent a long time just writing and arranging - the biggest concentration being the 365 Minutes project (more on that at a later date) - I took a lot of advice and did a hell of a lot of listening, and I was finally starting to work out how to do this properly.

So, armed with Pro Tools, a pair of Genelec monitors, an ADK mic and a slew of fun instruments, plugins and patches I set about writing and recording Everyone Looks Good In Black.