Working In Albums And Writers Block

I think I have been programmed to write in quantities of albums. I wonder how many other artists are the same?

Over the last two years I have written about eleven songs which I am incredibly proud of. These are the songs that I play out at gigs and are featured on various EPs and recordings. I also think it would be fair to say that those eleven songs kinda gel together. They sound good next to one another and common themes and sounds run from one song into the next. These songs would be my first album.

So now comes the second album. Obviously I am not consciously working on an album or anything but the new material I have started working on is different. Still me on an acoustic and still writing about the same topics but the overall sounds are different. More developed perhaps, more commercial even, but they don't seem to fit alongside my older material.

This has been nagging me this week. Why do these songs feel so different? Is it that they aren't as good? Are they not as original? Is it, like Trish said, that I'm trying too hard to write new material and the result is something un-natural and not me?

When playing the songs I think they sound great. They occupy me in exactly the same way the older songs did when I first started writing them. Is that all that matters?



Tomorrow I will be updating my musical sketchpad with some new electronic music, and taking down the live tracks as downloads.

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