Acoustic Demos: Foreign Skies (2017)

Getting Squiffy In the Woods

While preparing to record Foreign Skies, we decided to rent an expensive cabin in rural British Columbia and gather the instrumentalists there for a week of writing and learning. We told the bass player and the drummer the expense was worth it to get our creative juices flowing. Really, we just wanted to get squiffy and sing sea shanties in a hot tub in the woods. Which we bloody well did.

Fig 1. The Only Surviving Photo

But we also brought along a little recordy box thinger. And the result is pretty cool album history, a series of acoustic version of Foreign Skies songs recorded as they were being written and before we learned how to play them properly. Some of them sounded so good that we joked about just releasing them as a separate album under a slightly different band name:

So we’re going to reward our subscribers with a few of these demos for download and, for their, uh, aural pleasure.

Now, if you’re not a subscriber, look, I don’t blame you. Let’s be super real here, I wouldn’t subscribe to this blog, it is not worth $5/mo. But I guess you don’t get to listen to these demos, and probably other ones in the future too. So, uh, if you’re nuts and want to support us, subscribe I guess? I like money.