This is something I'd always wanted to do, a kind of live improvisation. Having got hold of a cool pedal which I used for 'The Broken Watch Chase Dream', I took the opportunity to try it. So, on the 13th January 2007 I sat down just after 2pm, hit records, and just started playing. Having finished this, essentially a version of the aforementioned song, before I finished that song itself, some of the stuff in it ended up informing the way that ended up.

Anyway, it's just me, a guitar, the Marshall EH-1 Echohead pedal, a mic, my voice (whistling, singing and groaning), remote controls, an optical mouse and a brief appearance by the FM3 Buddha Machine. I love playing this way; having spent most of my recent years recording in bits and pieces, it felt great to just go into that trance-like kinda state where you just get lost in what you're doing. So in that context, 49 minutes didn't feel like much. The end result is a kind of droning, ambient concoction which might lull you to sleep, bar the microphone bits which are maybe a little unsettling.

Oh yeah, and instead of a photograph/jewel case cover, this comes housed in a handmade black card thing modelled on those Constellation Records releases. Except more amateur, in what is perhaps an all-too-fitting metaphor for Enough Rope as a whole.

Anyway, click to see the front cover, and what it looks like when you peek inside.