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So finally, after months and months of deliberating, and faffing about, and predicting its release; I’ve finally finished the new album. I’ve been pushing hard to try and make my yearly deadline, as for the first time in years I haven’t managed to put up an albums’ worth of songs yet this year. So here, with 2 weeks to spare, is album number 6: Hesitance.

I’m doing things slightly different this time round, the album won’t be available from this site, not just yet anyway, for now you will be able to download it from this link. As always it can be downloaded completely for free, although this time there is the option to pay as much, or as little as you want to for it, kinda like Radiohead did a few years ago, only I’m neither as good, nor rich as them. So in other words – it’s free. Oh and it can also be listened to and downloaded from Facebook by clicking here.

I always say that I’m not going to talk/write too much about a new release and then more often than not I invariably end up doing so, but I will do my best to keep this brief..

As to why the whole thing has taken so long, I can’t really pinpoint it other than for the first time, real-life work really got in the way. It’s been very difficult to try and stay creative at the end of long days, and with so little spare free time, the tendency is to spend any I do get, basically sitting around and doing nothing. I can actually get quite disheartened thinking of all the many half-started songs that could maybe have come to something in the last year had I not given up after a few minutes due to tiredness and general malaise. But yet, some still managed to make it through, fighting against my lethargy, and made it to become fully finished, recorded songs. And here are 11 of them.

The songs on this new album range a span of about 14 months, all were recorded in my room in South London and in that time I broke a laptop, along with my long term audio interface, a 2^nd audio interface, several guitar strings, lost most of my audio software and almost completely gave up many, many times.

As for the theme, well the title song was probably the first one written, and I always liked that as an album title, so the rest of the songs kind of fit into that theme and what it conjures up in my head. It’s about the state of being hesitant in general, or ‘in-between’, holding back, caught in a spiral of indecisiveness. It’s about hesitance in the sense of being at a stand still, unsure of where to go next, and afraid of making a choice that changes too much. It’s about the good and the bad, the past and the future, the pros and the cons…. or something along those lines anyway. The main thing is that I always try to make sure that the songs all fit stylistically and thematically together, and I think they more or less do. It’s easily the most stripped-back of all the Down In Autumn albums when it comes to production, and the songs were kept pretty simple both in terms of the arrangement and the production, hopefully it works.

And I’ll leave it there. Another one down. There’s another EP I currently have in mind that may surface early next year, and beyond that, who knows? I’d be ‘hesitant’ to presume anything beyond that..

Thanks for listening

Thomas

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