Great band. My brother and I listened to them on KCRW when driving around LA in 2009. Give your leftover change from the ice cream savings away.

Such A Bad Way Written By Fictional Name There’s some wine in the closet There’s some beer in the fridge Some people coming over You know how it is With all of the features And of the fraud Didn’t you miss me Breaking all sorts of laws…

(Don’t Know Why) I’m Happy I’m Alive Written By Fictional Name Maybe if I just spent my time a little wiser I could write myself a reminder Frostbite has taken both of my thumbs Language is what they're afraid of It's a game of mystery…

Oleander Season Written By Fictional Name It’s oleander season The cold is turning cool The reeds are getting sharper Lying in the pool Millions of fireflies Coming from the east Songs of tomorrow Songs of the beast It’s oleander…

Love Is A Realization Ate alone at a dead gas station I don’t know my life Filled up while sitting naked I don’t wanna be right They all run when they hear the sirens Away like mice from lights When everything returns to silence Crawl…

Sometimes That Feels Like Going Home Written by INTNL Love is a song that only angels have sung We try to harmonize but no one ever does We’ll just scream until we lose our voice And sometimes that feels like going home... Sometimes…

She Cries Diamonds Written By INT'L She cries diamonds Only when she’s sad She cries diamonds Only when she’s sad She’s drowning in diamonds Because everyday is so bad She cries diamonds When she's out in the rain She cries diamonds…

Originally I had a Motown idea in mind, and I kept my stomping and clapping, but the song seemed to lend itself to a more spacey-synthey feel, so I ran with it. I also am hinting a tiny (very tiny) bit at Joe Jackson's band's backing vocal styles…

What else can be said of the last 12 months? Everybody wants a piece of my time. Get in line. The riff came first and I walked around for days just banging it out non-stop. Hammer-ons for fun and pleasure...

Let's get the fuk outta here.

Never forget the simple pleasure of just listening to music. I wrote a whole album about it a few years ago called The Lost Art Of Listening. This one's about how a song can simultaneously take you away from the concerns of life, yet make you…

Another one where the riff came first, on the last day of RPM 2020 actually. Before all the craziness struck. I thought to myself "Oh self! That's a good riff! I will need to revisit it next year for RPM 2021." So I did. It also has a call-back…

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you...

Ok, this one has a journey for its creation. The original riff actually came to me in the heat of late August 2013. I still remember when it came to me. It was in a different key, with a slight different resolution. It felt like a hot summer's…