Well I gotta say, what a week this has been. We managed to get Leave Home announced on schedule; we now have our music available on actual, real-life, physical CDs and vinyl you can touch with your hands; and we have some actual, real-life, kick ass t-shirts that you can wear and run about the place in and scream "PEN-15, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!". BIIIIG big shout out to the people who have bought one already!! 🖤 It feels amazing to be honest, though the wait until the album actually goes live on the 26th is already becoming pretty excruciating.
But yeah, in case you wondered, I'm feeling ok too. Think I'm getting there? Actually got my lazy ass in gear and finally got my weights out too. Baby-steps, Ivy, baby-steps.
That said, as a result of dipping back into some vaping here and there... I appear to have given myself oral thrush. And yes, that is even LESS sexier than it sounds. Hey, that explains my mouth tasting like metal though. Some intense mouthwash seems to have cleared it up but yeaaah, it's definitely given me that final push to actually stop, so I'll take that as a (slightly gross) win 🙌🏻
So as we all know by now, because my ADHD is relentless I'm already mapping out what's next for PEN-15 after Leave Home. After Reckoner we had originally intended to do a b-sides EP/album(?) as the next release, but the timeline shuffled somewhat and we ended up straight into album #3.
Long story short though (or just short story, it's not actually long), we often end up with various demo odds and ends of the most stupid songs, sometimes a result of being drunk and/or high as fuck, that are just wayyyy too ridiculous to include on a regular album. I mean, we've happily included a song about a dog private investigator, however many Simpsons references, and I titled a song I Went Into Space and All I Got Was This Lousy Vagina, so that gives you an idea of how stupid what we've decided to leave on the cutting room floor must be. Past that, some of them are basically just us showing off and would be wayyyy too stylistically jarring to squeeze in with our regular stuff. Thing is though, if I do so myself, lots of them are actually pretty bitching! It just feels a shame for no-one to ever hear them, so that's why we had the idea to just do a sort of b-sides thing.
While I have started bouncing around ideas for album #4 already, I do think the b-sides would be a good, low pressure buffer before we get into the nitty gritty of another album proper. It came up the other night when we were out drinking (Mercedes is obviously extremely keen for the one she sings on and lives out her raging metal queen fantasies to come to life, as she should be!) but we'll see what people think now that they're not steaming drunk, nor wanting to charge headfirst into trash cans and generally cause destruction (*cough* Mercedes).
And who knows, maybe, just maybe, one day we'll actually play a gig?? Hahahah, hmm, we'll see...
Ives 🖤 x
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Currently Listening To
Evergreen Terrace - Dead Horses
Suede - Antidepressants
