Last weekend I guess it was I went back out with a few homies to record some new shit, a project we’re calling NYC Headhunters. Most of these fellas aren’t too familiar with LI so the trek out there to P-Town seemed like an eternity to them. Understandably.

We did an arguably fast session, which was pretty sick. 5 songs in about 4.5 hours? This is gonna be a demo so for me it wasn’t something I wanted to put too much thought into. Basically, does everything read? Is anything blowing out? Ok then.

We ended up doing a few takes of everything and got to a good place after about two hours.

Then just a couple of random touch ups and fixes. Standard practice shit. I just wish I had a better way of isolating out sound for overdubs. The headphone set up in basements is never ideal.

After banging out those overdubs me and Evan set up for him to track a second guitar tone. So we had Colman on fuzzy, reverbed out guitar, and Reggie on clean and fat bass now Ev was gonna add a good middle ground to the recording. Overall it came out pretty good. Not entirely stoked on the snare, but I am gonna try and fuck with it until the bitter end. Vocals coming. Demo done soon.

New shit and Bass overdubs

I ended up staying out there while the NYCHH dudes headed back to the city. I would later record some vocals with Drew and record some drums and bass for a new fast song. When Drew got back from work we chatted about online dating and watched Twin Peaks to the wee hours of the night.  The next morning Andre came out and we plowed through some more bass tracks and fucked around with some new ideas. Things are getting closer.

Down in the Gravel Pit

So Drew has got a house. This wild ass motherfucker now lives in my crazy ass hometown of Patchogue in a house. By himself. That’s a thing. Like a real thing. In this photo he was just mowing the lawn. Weird shit is goin on in the world man…

Anyway, Drew invited us to use his new basement to record our new LP in. Perfect cause there’s nothing in it yet and it’s sort of U-shaped. So I decided for optimal bleed separation I would put two amps in either corner, and the drums in the middle. That way everyone can walk to the center near the drums and hear each other, or go closer to their amp to hear themself.

The first day of soundproofing was quite an obstacle, considering we used bricks, cardboard and a little bit of love.

So far we’re mainly working on drums because the guitar tones aren’t quite there yet, a and our bass player can never do anything on weekdays, the only time we can.

Drew also has a nice big backyard to go crash on after we sweat down there for a while.

Andre taking advanatage right thurr

So far Patchogue has been interesting. I always felt it was a weird ass place but because it was what I was used to it was somehow normal. It’s both been describes as “the Lower East Side of Long Island” and “The Twin Peaks of Long Island” by Drew and Andre. Pretty accurate. More than ever, the freaks come out at night – eh, scratch that they just come out ALL the time.

Having a place to leave stuff totally set has been sick though. We’ve been banging through shit whenever we can.

Only big problem down there is the heat, my god, the heat! Drew finally got a de-humidifier which has been a lifesaver, but it’s still pretty brutal after a couple takes.

There is a papusaria around the corner, which at first Andre scoffed at

but after I convinced him to go, he admitted it wasn’t too bad

still, no shortage of weird happenings in there though.

We still got a bunch of work to do, but it’s damn good to be getting a move on this shit

Matt doing some demo vocals

DP is also in record mode a bit. We started working on these songs back in December, before the tour which I don’t think I ever posted the photos from. I think the coldness of it all just crushed me and I didn’t wanna reflect at the time. Anyway, we are now more comfortable with them than we were at the time we started tracking them so we’ll probably restart next month some time. It was fun to have a track to put this little clip together with though. Matt sounding strong.