There are currently 16 songs that are on the shortlist for the new album. We’ll probably put 12 on the album. There are 5 which are just about Flipronshaped enough, (with a few tweaks,) to take to the studio. So, we have to work through 11 more & choose the best ones. Sort of. The best ones will be obvious enough really quickly, so we’ll crack on with the best 7 in time for the first sessions in early February. So you see how really, really interesting rehearsing for a new album really iszzzzzzz…zzzz eh? Only marginally more interesting is the news that there are songs ‘about’ blackberries (the fruit); comets; clocks & travelling beyond the solar system; the end of civilisation(s); lakes; leaves & petals & pigeon crap & sunlight; ancestors; auctions; history; carelessness; obsession; the peculiar weight that certain small words can use to tilt the meaning of a sentence from one place to another; songs about physical scale & time scale. Not limescale as yet, -but who knows? We live in a hard water area.