Our songwriting process is the creation of tiny universes.

Vienna Teng’s ‘City Hall’ is one such universe, being a song about same-sex marriage and a couple driving miles to get married at City Hall.

And then we have Ryan Adams’ ‘Oh My Sweet Carolina’, about a man's journey from Kentucky through Texas and Ohio, "building newsprint boats", and smelling "all the sweetest winds", and concluding with a plaintive note of longing for home. He’s looking for something, but he doesn’t know what he wants.

Each song is a universe, with people and feelings and a landscape.

With the end of each song the curtain falls on one world, and with the first chord of the next the break of a new dawn.

But the old worlds don’t die just because the song is over – the song is a glimpse of a world that keeps on keeping on and fights to stay alive and in love even when no one’s watching.

The old worlds, and each new world we create, they live forever.

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20120129 220206.m4a

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40 minutes of Penpusher. Are you ready for it?

Track listing:-

1. City Full of Whores
2. Regrets, Meanderings & Solitude
3. Hourglass
4. Everything is Beautiful When There's More Space
5. If It Is (Perfect)
6. Big Dam
7. End of the World
8. Bedroom Intrusions
9. The Enemy

Recorded at 10pm on Sun 29 Jan 2012 in Marine Parade.

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Penpusher - The Enemy (demo).m4a

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Thomas wrote this song a long time ago. Glad we can finally do some justice to it.

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"Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing."

- Mark Knopfler

- Nick Hornby

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Penpusher - The Weight of Time (piano).m4a

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Wrote another song based on a riff that Brian and Thomas came up with last week, except that the riff we agreed was Fleet Foxesque while the song that evolved from that turned out to be quite a different creature!

It's called The Weight of Time because the bass chords remind me of the chiming of a grandfather clock. 'Weight' is also a play on 'wait' and on the fact that the chords sound a little resigned to its fate (to wait).

Haven't figured out how to arrange this in a guitars+vocals setting, so I hope that if the guys like it, we can work on it when we have some time.

Next jam in 5 days. Stoked!

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Can you believe it? We have 2 gigs next month. TWO! How is this even possible? We have with one fell swoop TRIPLED the number of gigs performed in the past 2 years. Truly an amazing development. Most grateful to our friends Basement in My Loft and 7x0x7 for believing in us.

Details!

Opening for Basement in My Loft
Date: Sat 4 Feb 2012
Time: 10pm
Venue: Prince of Wales, 51 Boat Quay
Entry: Free

Frottage v: Casual Encounters
Date: Thu 9 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Pigeonhole, 52 Duxton Road
Entry: $10 at the door.

Hope to see you there!

And may this fresh lunar cycle bring you a reduced amount of badgering from nosy relatives about your marital or parental status.

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