I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.
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I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.
I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.
I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.