Planned Catastrophe from Ruthless Window by James Walsh

I think I was going for Hot Chip: instead, it sounds more like Yo La Tengo. At this point I had written and recorded three songs in three consecutive evenings, and was starting to suspect for the first time that this cold January project would reach completion. And that frightened me: I do plan for Catastrophe, after all. Success is harder.

James wrote his first song in 2009, when his then partner bought him a ukulele for his 30th birthday. He wrote a song about Laika, the first dog in space, and then got distracted by other things. This is his first attempt to write a coherent album of songs, but now this particular monkey is off his back he hopes to write a second album before the year is out.