HERE COMES THE WORLD
released JANUARY 6, 2023
ALBUM 43, RELEASE 120
Before I talk about the songs that are on this album, I want to discuss 2 other things regarding this album. The first is the description on the Bandcamp page, which reads "IN THE NO: Part 3 of 3". While waiting for an album called Hoping For A Little More...Pizzazz to get released by Repeating Cloud, I got antsy and started writing and recording new stuff. By the time Pizzazz came out, I had started a LOT of songs, to the point that I decided that, instead of making 1 really long album and cutting songs to make it fit under 80 minutes (a personal rule), I would just put out 3 albums. That was a feeling I'd had after making a few heartbreaking cuts to what became Atlantic Witchcraft. The second is the cover. Like the other two IN THE NO albums, the cover photo was taken in Pittsburgh, PA during Labor Day Weekend 2022. This specific image is a photograph of a sink in the Greyhound station. It is possibly the single most absurd thing I have ever encountered in my life. The last time I was at that station, the faucet was intact and there was no ramen in sight.
"Hop Into The Fog" is really good. The only reason it opens the album is because, honestly, something had to. I usually have an easier time figuring out the end of an album than the beginning. My aversion to frontloading taken to an extreme, maybe. "Your Bright Blue Evening" might be a bit too long on here, but it doesn't matter because it's still one of my favorite songs I've ever written. It was the first song I recorded in any capacity for the trilogy, and my goal was to channel all of the OOIOO I'd been listening to (and still listen to, wow that band rules) into a song. It doesn't sound like them at all but it worked out. "Spirit Can't Be Broken By Rain" was, at one point, going to be the first HW song to be released on vinyl. It wasn't written to be, but someone I knew was looking for some short songs to try to make a 6-song 7". I submitted this. The record was never made. Oh well. "Go Out Arms Swinging" was an attempt to get the most I could out of just 2 chords. It was a setlist staple in late 2022 (which is to say: we played it 5 times). I'm sure there was a point to " Ⅰ. Disappeared Boy Ⅱ. Destroyed Man Ⅲ. I Am Obliterated" when I recorded it. I actually still like it, but it would have been better as three different songs. Maybe it's just the second part I'm not huge on, because the other two work pretty well as half-decent Mount Eerie copies.