Heapings new album: Drain Slabs
In a way this is kind of cheating: a complete reworking of songs previously released in the exact same order, ditching live acoustic guitar and voice recordings for electric guitar, voice and fake drum versions. There was an internal need for immediacy and vulnerability in October, 2025 from me, so the stripped down setup with nature and automobile sounds blasting across the recordings felt like a nice curtain behind the performance. I recorded all the songs as videos and then captured the sounds as audio files and released (except for Frogs, that's another story).
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I've always envisioned these songs as having drums, I just wasn't ready to program or put a group together. Something about the Waves Against the Palace/Washed Out, Emerging single released earlier this month opened my drum programming brain back up, and I got in there and got to work.
The guitar sound is exactly what I want, slabby enough to cover the range of not having a bass but articulate enough of push out the emotion of playing guitar. Somehow, I have learned how to record directly into the computer. I've resisted it for years, but this seems like the beginning of a new era, sneaking around and recording full albums in the middle of the night while everyone is asleep.
The vocals are more sustained tones and full throat singing than usually comes natural to me. One of my pals referenced Slovenly upon hearing the vocals, an incredibly underrated 80s SST band that I love.
So here it is, a document of these songs rooted in repetition and cut and paste writing, pulling from references and a brain attempting to reclaim calm in the midst of every major news event feeling more dire and more against my world view.
Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 18, 2024
