A Year Full Of Nothing But Shoegazing...

I miss posting so here i am again... and i'll try my best to be here always or at least every now and then..

shoegazing has been a big part of my life during the 1st quarter of this year... thanks to those blogsites that share really good music, specially "shoegazeralive" blogsite... they somehow ended my "dry-spell"...

i was really having a hard time writing songs for candyaudioline... i didn't want us to sound too indie rock anymore... after coming up with "cellophane smiles" nearly 2years ago, i decided to get rid of the angst and try to be more "far out and away" with my songs... but nothing came out except for some songs which i felt wasn't really up to par with what i had in mind... although 2 of them ("Like Rainbows Do" and the early version of "Lying To Ourselves") ended up with Soft Pillow Kisses and 1 ("All About Us") with Superminty... then came "Sometimes" which at first i felt was a bit of a mediocre song but i had to come up with something just to get the ball rolling... that song did turn out to be something but i was still a bit unsure at to whether i was successful in "getting rid of the angst"...

then came the dare that somewhat produced a song that me and the rest of my band mates consider an "accident"... "Away We Go" was made because Dennis was complaining that i was too much pre-occupied with Soft Pillow Kisses - which at that time, i was trying to come up with the finishing touches to a Pillow song called "Yet It's Been A While" minutes before a candy practice session... so i told him that i was going to write a song and that it was to be arranged during that session or we won't end practice unless we get it done... it took me a little over 20minutes to come up with the chords, lyrics, melodies and basic arrangements... i guess everyone was surprised at how serious i was so we proceeded with the session... at first it was shaping up to be a bit of an indie pop tune along the lines of Populardays but after me getting confused at how it was to be strummed and my bandmates suggesting to play it dead slow, everything started to fall in it's right place... punctuated by Arjay's heart shattering bass line during the intro, it was suddenly transformed into something so "out of our league"... so from that time onwards i decided to ditch the indie rock and go straight, all out dreamy...i wrote "Gently Fall Today" barely days after... i was dead sure that it was at par with "Away We Go" but wasn't to sure whether my bandmates was up to it... but after an hour of hit and misses, i was proven right and suddenly, writing songs became as easy as making coffee...

Now i'm sleepy... Just 2 days to go... 2011's just around the corner... 'til the next post...