As you might have noticed, many of the countdown posts are timed at 23:50 or so. Yes, I'm cheating and backtiming, I usually don't have time until 2 or 3 in the morning to write here and I got to keep the countdown posts on the date. So right now it's 02:40 and I am super tired I'm not even going to spell check this one.

Today I spent all day fighting the most obvious radio track of the album. This will be the first track you hear from Unicorn. I'm trying to bend it into a killer album track, a killer live track, which also can kill well on radio and the web. The album sorely needs a single to carry it.

This is music politics and I wish from the depths of my heart and soul I didn't have to consider and manipulate the optimum radio potential in my music. With Shadow and Spokelseskladden and Nebular and most my other projects I do exactly what pleases me and nobody else, but for Ugress I try to find a balance between personal ideas, musical expression, artistic credibility and commercial appeal. Every artist in the world who release their art to the public does this, but nobody says it. (And a surprising amount have no idea they do it even if they do it.)

I am a mad crazy multinerd composer, I want to write mad music just the way I want it but I also want to live like it, so I try to create music not only for me to love, but for others. If this makes the music better or worse is a very interesting discussion. But I need a catchy single to sell albums, so I can reinvenst and continue my mad world domination plans.

Oh, btw, the track work title starts with the letter U. It must mean luck with three U's, Ugress, Unicorn, Uxxxxxx.