We think Portland has a great music community right now, and we’re excited to share our little piece of it as captured in this music. We share a wall with some of our favorite bands in town, so you can hear Lithics practicing as “Grand Central Song” fades out, and the Woolen Men let us borrow some mics. We did some overdubbing in Portland over the summer in our practice space. My friends and I rented a house overlooking the sea and made the basement into a little recording room. This album was mostly recorded on the Oregon coast a few months ago. The chords are inspired by one of my all time favorite songs, “Mindless Child of Motherhood”, written by Dave Davies of the Kinks. “I’ll Go Home” is about thoughts of a past that can no longer be returned to, or the feeling, as you get older, of all the negative shapes of lives you didn’t actually lead pressing into you as you walk through your everyday. It’s part acidic self-parody about “aging out”, part comment on how the ideas of being a bystander and a participant have become so deeply confused in the internet age. The main theme is the passage of time, and how things quietly drift and flow together and apart, creating new, strange or wonderful or sad forms and casting old ones aside. The songs that ended up on the album follow a couple of common themes. It’s my attempt to capture sonically all the mystery and magic of getting to learn about this little being, from hearing her heartbeat to seeing her as blurry streaks of light in a hospital room, to meeting her and seeing a billion years of the struggle to be alive renew itself again in front of me. Unsurprisingly, that one is called “Lucy’s Song”, and is the last song on this album.
I wrote a song for her while she was still in the womb. I worked my day job and watched seasons pass and eventually my wife and I had a baby daughter named Lucy, named after “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. I also played in a few other bands with friends, mostly just having fun. During those 5 years Campfires existed as a live band and played out every once in awhile, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. The last one, “Tomorrow, Tomorrow”, came out about 5 years ago, also on Fire Talk.
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