Notes on the new album – The Flow

Back in 2009, we released two different versions of Cornfed Humans. The CD version and the digital version on our website has the songs kind of flow into one another as one continuous piece of music. This is the ‘real’ version as far as I’m concerned. Most of the other digital versions (iTunes, etc) have “stand-alone” tracks with proper endings since a lot of people buy just one or two songs. (If anyone one is curious, Gran Torino is apparently our ‘hit’ – it outsells all the other songs on the album.) This is the ‘lame’ version.

I’ve always been an ‘album person’. Scroll through the music on my iPod and you will find nothing but complete albums. I know it’s old fashioned at this point, but that’s how I’ve always viewed recorded music. So when we heard how well the new track sequence flowed, somehow managing to bring together this myriad of songs into one cohesive statement, we said “Screw it, all those single-track people can suck it.” So, we’re releasing only one version of Love Songs for Giants – all the songs flow together, and if you buy only one track, or listen to it on shuffle or as part of a playlist, it will end abruptly. We’re okay with that now. This business of music is silly anyway, so there’s no point it trying to play by the rules…