It's a weird one, grief.
People deal with it in different ways, but it doesn't stop it being a hard thing to process. My mum rang me back in June to say that her brother, my uncle, had passed away whilst on a break to Skegness. He'd been dealing with cancer for the past 5 or so years, but it still came as a shock - my mum was obviously really upset, I was gutted - my aunt and uncle on my mum's side had always been there, always there with a card every birthday, always there with a smile.
After the initial shock, and then the funeral a few weeks back, I decided I wanted to do something to honour him, to do something nice in the face of something so sad. The only thing I know how to really do is make silly little tapes with my stupid band name on, so that's what I did and that's what is out today. It's an album called Subtle Manoeuvers (s/o Franz Kafka for the title inspo) and it's a pretty laid back atmospheric dub techno sort of thing
It's funny, because I wasn't planning on releasing much this year- I wanted to do The Future Can Wait, then take a bit of a break from everything, but the universe obviously had other plans in mind.
Around May and June, when the weather was super nice, I was inspired to just sit in my studio room after work and wind down by putting some very languid sort of golden hours stuff together, and before long I had 4 tracks done and dusted - just keeping it all relatively simple and relaxed - all the guitars and synth were done in one take each, save for a few bum notes here and there that I ended up chopping out, it's on the record how I played it originally - just messing about over the track. It fit so well!
Anyway, it's all done and it's out now and I'm donating every last penny to Cancer Research UK in the memory of my uncle, Brian Davis.
If you don't buy tapes, or whatever, that's fine and understandable - just go donate something to the charity here and tell them I sent you haha.
