Concept of "We Might As Well..."

I'm in the makes of the album for my band, The Things (yes I know that name is somewhat awkward but bear with us...), named "We Might As Well..." and I just wanted to transpose the meaning behind the name and concept of this album.

Firstly, the concept of the entire band came from the root of "we should just give it a go". That line pretty much summed up our rehearsals, the song making process and the execution of the setlist. In the end, we arent doing this to impress people much, but rather to have something to risk.

So you could say that I built this band on an unstructured, unprocessed, unsure base. But that's what makes us unique. We like to go from a slow song to a full on power rock n roll riff. It's all about taking the risk because in the end we might as well go for it.

I worked on the album cover with a very dear friend of mine, Alexia Lund, and we came up with this background. (Note: this is not the finished product, this just outlines the background). I used the chaotic color and brush strokes on the left to indicate the normality of society. How people are born, they work, they die. The natural cycle of life. 

It indicates as well where the subject, in that case you could make me said subject, wants to be but wishes to refrain from that area. You can notice how the lights stray closer and closer to the midpoint of the picture, showing how they expand and try to reach the other side thus ripping off the darkness. 

The right side of the album shows faint lights in organized squares. Thats where the austronaut (pretty much the theme of the album) would be. He is just standing there in his own, organized world, fighting the fear within himself of being engulfed by the chaotic world that slowly caves in. 

Metaphorically, the album talks about the lack of support, of the "one man army", that many of us experience at least at one point in life. It shows how this band is in the dark, it is working on its own, it is a self-functioning machine. Because we are recording our album in my little studio placed in my room, I write the lyrics, the songs, the melodies, no help from any manager or producer. We teach ourselves the instruments, the stage presence, the dynamics, the show. 

And that's what really moves The Things onward, given all the opposing forces.

But we're still here and the album is going well

Expect to hear it no later than this month!