Some Things Are Like Other Things is out today
Some Things Are Like Other Things is out today
12 songs about curiosity, loss, change, mental health and Olivia Colman
Start typing Morley, come on, anything.
Release days are a cocktail of emotions made by an amateur lockdown hobbyist mixologist.
There’s curiosity about whether people will like it, pride at all the bits I love, regret at the bits I would change, memories of making it, wild panic as I try to promote it without really understanding the tools of modern promotion, serenity that it’s only an album and whatever happens I’ll get to make more, and that ever-present semi-delusional artistic force that is convinced my best work still lies ahead of me.
Let’s start with a link to listen the record, that's promotion basics:
http://jakemorley.lnk.to/STALOT
There are many platforms to choose from. If I may play waiter for a moment whilst leaning over you to point at the menu, the Bandcamp page is particularly in season for signed CDs and downloads, or if you’re more into streaming I hear Tidal pays better than most. But really this is just about connection, wherever and however it happens.
Like a lot of music it will give back the more you put in. That's asking a lot I know, but you've seen this work before. Find a good moment, love it, hold it, take it out to dinner, and hopefully you'll find something you want to keep around.
There’s lots more to say about this record I think, if you might humour me a little further. The people who made it, the stories behind the songs, the reason it’s taken two years to release.
But today is more a day just to offer it up. So, with that very faint waiter callback, here is one final link to listen to it.
I shall return in a few moments to ask whether everything is ok. Please say yes thank you. No really, comments are always welcome, as honest as they come, I can take it.
Right, back to taking pictures of myself holding a copy of the album.
love you all
jake
End of October, something through my letterbox.
It's a beauty. It's precious for what it is, what's on it, and what's in it. (You say 2011, I say summer 2008. I remember seeing the Old Street cow-like bins for the first time. I remember a room with graphs, or maybe newspaper cuttings everywhere on the walls, and that guy who held his guitar not like other people...)
The album stayed untouched for a couple of weeks, not even looking at the song list, waiting for a sisterly Sunday breakfast time so we could discover it together.
In into the CD player it went, and yes, it sounds like you.
A little scream reading there would be a special button song, I probably heard it twice before, 10 years ago... and missed it since then!
The album has been playing quite a few times since. The whole feels new but warm, familiar and comfortable.
As for the previous albums, each song will surely become a favourite at some point. For now, I'm enjoying the strings, the stories, and the campfire.
Loving the tracks Jake, great to hear new music from you :-). Especially like So I had this dream, and quick question if I may. Does my memory serve me right, in that there's a button behind the bar at Bootleggers (or am I making that up?)?