Suzannah Jane is a goddamn freaking legend.
She cancelled her entire weekend to work on getting all the mixing done and by Saturday afternoon she's only gone and done it. Now just some final mastering to do but otherwise the album is pretty much now there. Love that girl!
We've obviously been checking in on the songs as she's been doing them in whatever order it has ended up, but have just listened to the whole thing in the actual track order from start to finish and wow... turns out I wasn't prepared for that at all.
I absolutely love it and I am SO so proud of what we've done on this. The girls just keep getting better and better too. Honestly, I'm in awe of how freaking good they are.
From my own perspective though, I guess as the lyricist it's always going to be a bit of a different experience. I've mentioned before that the first half is fun and the second half goes pretty dark, but listening to it in full in order... I really hadn't grapsed just HOW relentlessly bleak it gets. While I am obviously so happy hearing what we've all made together... if I'm totally honest, I do feel a bit off on a personal level.
I have already been making an effort for the stuff I've been writing since to tonally be a bit lighter, maybe even positive, but I'm now even more resolute in that. While expressing yourself through your art is greatly therapeutic, I now feel like if you're not careful that, with something in this medium at least (and genuinely not to overstate any writing ability I may possess), it has the potential to backfire and you can create something that's quite traumatic to experience.
Yeah... it's really not a nice feeling and I don't want to do this to myself again.
I'm sure for other people it won't hit in quite the same way, at least I really hope it doesn't. I'm working my way through the artwork this weekend and I'm now going to put a trigger warning on the back cover of the vinyl at least.
But yeah, from now on positive vibes only, Ivy. Positive vibes only.
Sending much love 🖤x
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