Track 11 on Novella Minor. Sort of the climax to the story, if the album can be taken as a story, before the conclusion in Steppes. One of our more energetic/driving songs. On its own, it's about the moment you realize someone you've long admired…

Track 10 on the LP, Novella Minor, this is the opposite outlook on the same subject as the title track, hence the opposite intention in their respective names. I think they were written back to back; lyrically at least. Frustrating times, resulting…

It was really cold the winter I wrote the main guitar arpeggios for this. It was cold again the winter we arranged and recorded it. So far, this winter's been fairly mild.

This started as a 3 or 4 minute long piece, written after falling completely in love with Robin Trowers' 'Bridge of Sighs' LP, and the track "Too Rolling Stoned" in particular. By the time I brought it to the table for This Caustic Autumn to arrange…

Track 8 on the album. Safety in Patterns I dream right through you. Bring home the damage to sift through. As I tear and fold you, I feel strange and fall through. Rub your eyes. Scour the clause. I must def+ine what it is that I'm not. Turpentine…

This started as a 3 or 4 minute long piece, written after falling completely in love with Robin Trowers' 'Bridge of Sighs' LP, and the track "Too Rolling Stoned" in particular. By the time I brought it to the table for This Caustic Autumn to arrange…

This is maybe the first track written entirely by This Caustic Autumn as a group effort. I'd been to see Sigur Ros play at Massey Hall in Toronto the night before we wrote this, so that's where the idea for the bowed Les Paul came from. Other…

track 5 from Novella Minor. Probably actually my least favourite song on the album. In retrospect, I would like to have replaced it with something different, but it's kind of carved in stone now. I mean, it's not terrible, it just doesn't really…

track 4 from Novella Minor.

track 4 from Novella Minor.