Hey..

Thought I'd follow the only guys I think is doing swell things online, Jason Mraz and John Mayer (ok Coldplay I'll let you in on this list as well) and blog about the band's progress on the upcoming album Crashing Towards Daylight.

This album is a tribute to music, love, and my friends in Örebro (the city i grew up in (it's in Sweden)). 

Let's start with the music; the album will probably start off with an intro without vocals. It raises the anticipation, Olle gets to show off some of his amazing drumming skills (the used version is the 2nd take with no rehearsing the song before) and Mikael's guitar play is awesome. These musicians I have the pleasure to work with is on a whole other level, instead of writing down the chords for them, we have had philosophical discussions about how to arrange the songs. So the intro starts off tentatively and ends with a-flower-that-burst-into-bloom kind of part. We were not meant to record this song when we went into the studio but it turned out to be the song with the best mood, that I want to continue building the album upon. The sound and arrangements are incredibly important. It has a lot to do with the fact that this is the first time my music gets to sound how it should. I have been playing guitar and sang the tunes for 15 years and imagined how they would sound, and now it's actually happening. 

Hopefully I will also talk about influences later on (remind me), the big life-changing artists who have given me so many intense and wonderful experiences it's insane.

Love. All songs I've ever written is about love in one way or another. Some of these songs are to my girlfriend, some older ones are written to someone I wanted to meet or fantasized about meeting, and some are to old crushes. But the title track is a song dedicated to my good friend who was lost in a car accident.

My friends. My oldest friends and our relationship is so much about music. When we meet after not having met in six months we would definitely make it a DMB-night, where we would listen to, and play along on our knees, the fills Carter does at the end of the Live at Piedmont Park version of Grey Street. Coming back home to Örebro to record has also been a wonderful wonderful experience, meeting Olles friends (many of them are also musicians on the album).

I want to give you a sample of the album, here is an unmixed version of a duet with Anna Fogel called Believe:

http://www.inlovewith.com/BelieveInYou.mp3

Hope you like it! Welcome to follow the making of Crashing Towards Daylight.

Email me on music@inlovewith.com

Love, Karl