Today we head back into the studio to track 4 more songs. Brian Virtue (our Producer) is back from Connecticut where he was working on the Deftones record, for the time being, so we can get to work. Here are the songs we plan on tracking:

Said You’d Be: We wrote this one in December during a one week really productive writing session that also yielded “Start of Darkness”. It began with Dave’s verse riff, and he and Chris came up with the change. There isn’t really a chorus in this song. It’s our fastest and shortest song, it clocks in at just over 2 minutes. We were in the mood to have a straight up jam: get in, rock, get out.

She Won’t Last: this was the first Panic Channel song. When we started playing in Perkins’ garage last May, this was the first progression the guys had that I worked on and we got a song from.

Someone Else: This is a song that I wrote a little over a year ago. Riss and I were over at a friend’s Christmas Party and I was feeling kind of out of synch with everybody. Definitely not in the party mood. They had a guitar and I took it and went upstairs and found a quiet place to play. This song is what came out. It was written when I was working on finger picked pieces ala Elliott Smith. I played it for Dave last Fall in the jam room and he liked it. We came up with the idea that maybe we track the acoustic guitar and vocals first, then each guy can lay on tracks and we build it in the studio. I am really excited to hear how we sound with this approach. I think this song might make a good record closer.

Left to Lose: Our latest song. Last week Dave bounded into the studio just knocking out all these cool new jams. The second one of the day was the verse riff to “Left to Lose”. We jammed the verse a bit, then I came up with a chorus progression, Chris tweaked it, and we all worked on a bridge. We played it for the first time last week at a manager showcase, and I had finished the lyrics about an hour before. This is another fast powerful one.

That’s the list, we have been in that last minute creative flurry mode that accompanies the weeks right before going into the studio. I have a new song idea I am working on, and have an older song called “Pay No Attention” that I have waiting in the wings, but they will probably have to wait.