Roulette This Weekend

I've been wading in drum sounds the last couple of days, so to stop myself going crazy I started working on sequencing the tracks. I decided to do this with colour-coded bits of carpet. I enjoy working with pieces of carpet.

I always put a lot of thought into putting songs into the right order, but it doesn't come to me easily. As I see it, it's about being able to conceptualize the album as a whole, as a statement, which I don't always have in mind when writing the songs. So I have to eke it out later by examining what themes reoccur in the songs.

The themes that I address represent a snapshot of my concerns at the time of writing, but I think that such a strongly point-of-view album should also have a dynamic protagonist. The songs are in first person, so the protagonist is me. Simple enough. Like any character, I have experiences and gain insights over the course of the album, hopefully having learned something by the end of it. Track sequencing is about timing these insights, making this journey intelligible and compelling.

Or maybe it's about not putting all the slow ones in a row.