Hey everyone, I‘m excited to announce the lead single for These Octagonal Eyes, “Lumberjack”, is releasing next Friday, February 4th! It will be available in most corners of the internet, including Spotify, YouTube, and Bandcamp. I’ll also be selling digital downloads via my website. You can even add the song into your Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok videos if you’re feeling fancy!
Here’s some info about the single:
'Lumberjack' is my extended metaphor of logging to songwriting. “Sharpening my axe” = honing skills by practicing, “salvage the cold deck” = search through old lyrics to repurpose, etc. I researched logging terminology to get a better grip on the subject and immerse myself in the ways of the woodworker. Fun fact: ‘swedish fiddle’ is slang for a crosscut saw. Writing this way turned out to be so rewarding.
Here’s my favorite story about this song: when I uploaded demos of my songs to a drive folder online for feedback, I also uploaded them to the “By The People” section of Rivers Cuomo’s (lead singer of Weezer) website and music player. There was a technical issue with this song not showing up that I mentioned to him in the website chat area. Rivers manually moved it over, listened to it unprompted, then said in the chat “Lumberjack is rad.” He also said later, “Mike I like Lumberjack.”
In other news, These Octagonal Eyes releases March 4th! I’m so very excited to show this album to you. More news will be coming from the blog soon, so stay tuned. Well, I gotta go sharpen my axe.
Until next time,
Mike
Pre-save “Lumberjack” to Spotify:
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