Glyphs of Joy

Today is crack #2 at rhythm editing for what I now think will be the title track of the album, "5 Best Songs". It's a title which defies the ten songs I'm working on, and the temptation to release an EP of just my favourite five. That might actually happen if someone likes this material enough to remix it professionally and release it properly, but as this is essentially just an album of inexpertly-polished demos I'm fine with the listener picking which five I'm referring to and which I should have left out.

Besides, I'm not a huge fan of EPs. Even my favourites, like Jens Lekman's An Argument With Myself, still frustrate me with their brevity. Albums in the 35-45 minute range are my ideal length, from Wire's Pink Flag to Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy. 'Course, Lifter Puller squeeze more plot than either of those onto Fiestas and Fiascos. These aren't rules. But I can always make my own personal EP out of any of those records if I don't feel like putting them on in their entirety, and more often than not I do. So that's why 5 Best Songs will have ten tracks.