California Wives

HeLLo! 

I hope your weekend has been a dream. just thought we drop a note about the band…some news on what we’re working on and how far along we are with our next release. Sometimes we get tunnel vision with our projects and lose track of time, so we apologize for not dishing out more news a little sooner. 

First off, those live videos we were talking about earlier…well they are in the final stages of the editing process, so I don’t think it should be too much longer before we can share them. We’ve got three of ‘em…one song off of Affair, one new one, and one cover song. There’s a huge list of people that made these videos happen, so THANK YOU ahead of time (we’ll list names when everything is finished).

As far as the new songs go, we’ve been really hard at work gathering our demos and working through ideas. We’ve got a healthy group of songs that we feel really good about and we’ll keep chipping away at these songs until we feel they’ve come far enough to record. Some of the demos are brand new, others have been previous ideas that came together right around the time we wrote “Blood Red Youth.” It’s been a refreshing experience, feeling like we can take these songs where they want to go without getting in the way too much. 

This upcoming weekend we’ll be tracking the “complete idea” songs at our friend’s space to get nicer, working demos. It’s always nice to get into a studio early to see what ideas will translate and which ideas are better left out. Pretty much all of the songs will go through this process until we have everything in front of us and can say…”THESE songs should go on the next record.”

As far as shows, touring, festivals…we’ll be dropping anchor in Chicago this summer while we write and record the newest CW project. We have every intention of widening the touring area with the release of new material and when it’s time to throw together a tour, we’ll be asking YOU where we should go. It’ll be a group project, k? We also have two more Chicago summer shows to announce a little later, so beware!

Thank you for being patient with us while we get these ideas right. All the attention has been so incredibly unexpected and we really appreciate all the kind words we’ve been receiving. We’re working hard to make sure we don’t string you guys/gals along with false promises and such. I’ll also be filming some clips from the process as it goes on so you can see how ridiculous four people can get when they make a record.

Keep in touch. Love, 

Jayson // California Wives