Extra, April 22nd: Gotta Broken Heart Again

From the Liner Notes: “I started to fool with Garageband, placing drum and percussion loops underneath folk guitars, or improvising wildly on the keyboard before editing out all of the mistakes (apart from the ones I liked, which I left in). I found that I liked grouping five tracks together as an EP, a format that a) had been around in my early record-buying days, and b) kept the undertaking containable. EP stood for Extended Play – usually with four tracks instead of the two tracks on a 45rpm single – and often played a holding role in an artist’s career. You may also say that it’s a lazy man’s approach to the issue, and I couldn’t possibly disagree. Of course, I’m also a dilettante of the first order, so it worked perfectly…”