Adventure Thing #2.25 - "Gold In The Sky" & The Future Imperfect Part 3 (Patreon)

Next stop crazytown! This adventure train is finally pulling into the station, and today's post is the last of our Unreleased Track Adventure Things for our B-Sides album adventure. 

Next week we'll be asking for your help to narrow down a few tracks from the official release that are "on the bubble" — your votes will help decide what gets cut and what makes it on. 

Then as a reminder: our paid post will be on Friday April 30th, so your card will be charged on May 1st for whatever tier you have selected at that point. From there we'll start to release to Patrons our new studio versions of the 4 tracks that were re-recorded, as well as sneak-peek looks at the physical materials as they're manufactured. It's gonna be fun!

Unreleased Track - "Gold In The Sky"

Believe it or not, I have one final Mahaffey cowrite track to end the adventure with. This one was written in the week before we started recording KABOOM!, as I booked some extra time down in Nashville to write before we started recording. 

While it wasn't deemed a hit and didn't make the record (I think we were both a little more focused on the record we were about to make), I still love this one. It's pretty rough and unfinished in a lot of ways (it doesn't have the usual last chorus), but this is the type of vibe that I was aiming for when I wrote "Fighting On" years later. 

Semi-Released Tracks - The Future Imperfect Part 3

Rounding things out on the semi-released front, this is the last tranche of songs from "The Future Imperfect", the set of b-sides and demos that didn't make "The Near Future"

• "No!" - clearly I was already starting to feel the 90's radio rock vibe, even a couple of years before we started working on "Canon Eyes". This was one of the last songs written during my time writing for "The Near Future". This song was actually going to be on the initial version that we started recording before switching producers, but after the blowup and some more writing we ended up cutting this song in favor of other new ones like "Pretend"
• "On Self Doubt" - yeah this one says exactly what it's about. Especially as we were departing from the label, I got into a decently dark headspace around the idea that a lot of the "team" we had built started to leave as well. This one is an iPhone demo, recorded in my old apartment where we didn't have walls, so you can hear the shower start in the background midway through the song. Weirdly I always found that somewhat soothing...
• "Reject" - looking back, I'm not actually sure if I even put this one on The Future Imperfect??? I thought I had, but looking at the tracklist maybe I didn't. It is a weird demo in that it's just electric guitar and vocals. Maybe I was just too embarrassed at just how brutal this one is with regards to my own battles with depression and anxiety. Well, here it is now!