notes
the 2024 ep featuring “come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera” and “i-95”
ada lea notes
The songs found in the ‘notes’ EP were all contenders for my second record ‘one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden’. Now that I’ve recorded three records and have released two, I’ve come to realise that my writing process requires that I write a bunch. Writing forty songs within a concept when I know I’ll only use ten allows me to discover a clearer vision of the kind of world I’m wanting to create for the music. I can’t tell what is missing until I’ve already written it. It’s like when Virgina Woolf said “a light here required a shadow there.” One idea leads to another, which yields unexpected songs. Obviously, while it’s happening it’s a very ugly and messy process (voice memos, crying, scraps of paper everywhere, an excruciatingly long and meandering soundcloud playlist—just look away, I’m hideous!) so I only see this pattern once the album is finished and there’s some distance. The discarded songs become “in-between” songs (songs that got me to write song B when I thought I could do with song A). Despite not making the final album cut, these six songs are their own special entities.