FRACTIONS OF WORLDS
released MARCH 15, 2024
ALBUM 49, RELEASE 137
Oh hey it's the first album I finished in Philadelphia. The distinction of "finished" is important here. I started this album in NJ. The original vision of the album was one where the songs had a significant change and ended sounding different than they started. I found the idea too much of a hurdle and only finished 2 songs (as heard on the Jack of Legs EP). When I restarted work on the album, the goal had unconsciously shifted to being (mostly) songs I could record with vocals and guitar together. It's an extremely rare case for me, in that most of the songs were written before I recorded these versions. This is because most of the songs already sort of existed. "Ghost Hands", "G2A","We Are The Triangles", and "The Yelling Wallpaper" were what I considered the best ideas of my first stab at making this. "Triangles" in particular is built around two riffs I held onto from the early days of working on No Use Crying Over Spilled Blood. "101 Guitars" was also from around that time. The original version was left unfinished. This version does, in fact, have 101 guitars on it. It was the last song finished for the album by about 5 days or so. "I Will Drift" and "Scrap Metal Boy" were songs I wrote for my high school band, and we never even recorded "Scrap". I'm pretty sure "Scrap" is the only song on the album that retains the guide vocal I used on many of the songs here. "Fission" and "Jack of Legs" were lyrics I wrote at work, and then recorded after a few minutes of messing around on guitar thinking of what could work under it. "Belief" was mostly recorded in my basement with my twin Dan's gear (thanks Signal Valley). "Sleep Is A Weapon" was a voice memo I had sitting on my phone for months. "No One I Want" was originally going to be on No Victories but I couldn't make it work the way I wanted it to at the time. Surely it's just because it's a more recent HW album but I think every song on here is pretty strong. It's easily one of my more accessible ones, so if you're not sure what HW album to listen to first, this would be a pretty good choice. You just have to contend with all of the noises I put at the intros and outros of most of the songs. I thought that would be funny. It kind of is.