Download I Live On The Outside, released on 1 December 2017, in MP3 (110 MB) format. Upon checking out, you will be emailed a secure link to the file lasting 24 hours after the first download. Please email if you have any issues with the download.

This music started life as a year-long endeavour previously dubbed The Year Of Gear.  In January, I began writing songs based around my love of vintage effects pedals and released the footage of them being recorded in real time on YouTube on the 1st of every month.

But as is so often the case with these sorts of things, the project quickly began to evolve into a body of work deserving of a far more concrete title and official release.

All of the tracks have been remixed and remastered from their original YouTube versions and consist entirely of complete ‘takes’ of real guitar playing (no audio edits going on around here, thank you!)

As 2017 progressed, I realised I was approaching the ‘Year Of Gear’ songs with as much consideration to their running order and flow for the YouTube playlist as I was to writing standalone tracks – essentially, I was recording an album but hadn’t quite realised!  There are certainly themes and ideas pinning everything together that I’m only really aware of now it’s done.  In terms of my songwriting, I think this is my most accessible and honest record to date too – I think I’ve been focusing less on storytelling and much more on things that might be personal to me this particular year. An organic-sounding album cooked up in my new home studio, I Live On The Outside has a sound born of the old-school recording traditions and is an entirely one-man-against-the-world affair – everything from the writing & engineering through to mixing, mastering and release was tackled in-house.

If you would prefer to have the WAV files for this album, please email me and I can send you a link.

Tracklisting

• 01 – Out Of Phase

• 02 – Pen & Paper 

• 03 – Long Road To Recovery 

• 04 – Hold It Down

• 05 – Like I Used To Do

• 06 – Monochrome Andalucía

• 07 – Revolution

• 08 – I Live On The Outside

• 09 – One Day, Far Away

• 10 – The Robot

• 11 – Another Day In Paradise

• 12 – Wish I Wuz A Wurzel

Album Credits

All tracks written, engineered, produced, mixed & mastered by Joe Perkins
All instruments played by Joe Perkins.
Hold It Down contains drum loops used with the kind permission of Emily Dolan Davies.