Hi everyone!

It's 2009, and we're slaving over hot microphones, guitars and mixing desks. Not one but two albums are in the works.

The 'real' new album is entitled Small Things @ LightSpeed. It's our most eclectic mix yet, with no less than 17 tracks ranging from indiepop all the way to indie rock. Okay, maybe that's not such a huge distance, but there's a couple of tracks we can't pin a label on at all. Anyway, there's frantic work going on here, crafting the final versions of much-demoed songs and trying to get that damned snare sound right. With the production process scheduled to finish by the end of January, expect a late-March, early-April release date. More info to come!

In other news, we're slowly working up the tracks for our other forthcoming release: RetroJordania. This promises to be an odd journey through our (mostly non-album) back catalogue. We've unearthed all those songs that were too strange to release, were conceived and recorded too quickly to realise their potential, or didn't make it out the front door. The final fifteen of these (we think) are being re-recorded and reinterpreted, with the idea of finding the core of Jordan-ness that runs through them. It's one of those ideas that arose from a bottle of vin rouge one long evening, and still sounded like fun the next morning. When the hard work on ST@LS gets a bit much, recording something historical keeps us sane. Expect a June release.

Meanwhile, we've got limited numbers of the last two CDs sitting on a high shelf in the studio, as well as the very last few of our old t-shirts, so and make us an offer for some of those. As we're moving premises in the next twelve to fifteen months, it'd save us some shipping costs.

Please, roam around the site. By all means see where we've been. But definitely download and listen.

Also, a reminder that you can now listen to The Jordans Play and other stuff in that vein at last.fm. Give us a shout out while you're there. Enjoy!

In the meantime take a look at the videos below. The first is a version of Love Comes To Ground, recorded live in the studio during the recording of the new album. Two mics, a videocamera, and off you go. The second video was a dark night in the cellar with a rough bit 'o lighting and a couple of microphones. Don't Follow Me Now was the result.

We're planning to release some more web videos following the album, so this is a bit of practice for that. Ideally we'd have videos available at the same time as the album release but ... well, we'll see.

Anyway, until the next instalment ... cheers!

a.d.