Dates at Last

I'm just finishing up my mixing chores for the week/weekend.  Things are going pretty well overall, and whereas they are slow going at times, my overall pace now has picked up greatly that I've overcome a few of the outstanding obstacles that I was really struggling with.

I can finally say that I'm looking at an April 1st release for the "Mirror Land" EP at very long last.  Yes, sure, it was supposed to be last April/May...but it was actually a great choice for me to really work through a ton of the mixing issues that had been boggling my mind.  I'm still fighting a bit with the rework of "Only With You" but I'm fairly confident that the April 1st date will stick.  It also will leave me enough time to make some minor changes to the CD artwork, possibly design a t-shirt, etc.

I believe I've decided upon a June 1st release for the Defrost Nixon album.  I actually expect to be done tinkering with the mixes by April 1st but I want to bake in enough time for me to get the artwork done, etc.  That one's actually going to be a bit tricky since I'm more or less creating that from scratch, and usually that takes a bit of doing and such.  There's also a music video in the works of which my friend has been working on for the past few months.

"It's Raining Elvis Fish!", the redux of my Robyn Hitchcock tribute album, is looking at a July 1st release.  This one needs a front cover as well but I know precisely what I want so it's just a matter of physically taking the photo.  I should be starting the final work on these mixes probably around mid March.

Other things that I've been working on are the "Petty Cash" EP, the "Acoustic Sampler" EP, and a few random cover tunes that I've actually never released before.  I have a few other things that I'll probably start tinkering with shortly as well but these are all in the bonus column.

For the next big project, that will be the long awaited "Wrecking Ball" album.  This will be a pretty heavy lift since I have to comb through all of the tracks, get the drums sounding decent, probably do a bit of rerecording, and then also finish the lyrics and record the vocals.  There's a lot to do here but it'll be a fun one.  It's actually one of the albums that I'm the most excited about.

Other things on the docket for 2025 include returning to the "Lost Weekend" remix, the "Yet I Tried for You" EP, and the new Jazz Loop Machine album "Sorry, I Forgot to Mention This".  Yes, there's a lot to do in 2025 :)  Of course, it always remains to be seen how much actually gets accomplished but I should do well if I stay on it, which is my plan.