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Day Two Hundred Seventy Seven

Picked up the new record by Airborne Toxic Event today. Listened to the whole thing in the car after I bought it. It's good stuff. Sounds like them, but lets their sound grow a bit. There's a bit more synth in the new record than there was in the first one, and there is definitely more of an acoustic presence on the new disc. Where the first album was a blast of energy from beginning to end, the second album seems to flow a bit more, and have some more distinct shifts in feeling and tone. It does what a second record ought to, maintain the identity of the band, while opening up what is musically possible.

I spent some time with the acoustic this morning, running some scales, playing a few cover songs, and just relaxing, and then spent some time tonight with the electric side, doing some of the same, but trying to bring in a few ideas from the Haynes DVD. I have yet to go back and examine the DVD in its entirety, but I am enjoying focusing on the concepts he presents early on, and that can only bode well for the rest of the disc.

Mid shift tomorrow, so if I play my cards right, I should have time to play both before and after work. Can't wait!

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