Since we last updated you we’ve worked our way through our short-list of titles for the album. We’ve also met up with Alistair regarding the album artwork. We wanted the artwork and title to work together, and also to reflect the vibe of the album.
We had an initial brainstorming session and came up with several title ideas. None of the song titles seemed to work as an album title, and the lyrics we’d pulled out, and other ideas didn’t seem to quite suit the set of songs either.
A week or two later Marc had gone through the lyrics again and asked me what I thought of “Lost Days and Nights” as a title, which is taken from a line in the first verse of Old Street. He’d already mentioned it to Sonny who was apparently pretty keen on it, and my first impression was that I really liked it too. I told Marc I was keen, but that I wanted to sit with the idea for a couple of weeks.
Shane had also suggested incorporating another idea in to the title, in a similar way to what we’d done on a Dear Acetate postcard in the early days of the band, playing on the band name ‘Dear Acetate’ as the opening salutation of a letter, and the title being an extension of that. From that we derived the idea of using “re:” as a prefix to the title. We thought that it worked when interpreted as being a prefix on the ’subject’ of an email or as the reference at the start of a letter.
Putting the two ideas together we had “re: Lost Days and Nights”.
We think it sums up the theme or themes of the songs on the album pretty well.
For the artwork Shane had the idea of showing the letter or email being written on a computer, or at least something to represent that, and from that came the idea of using a retro computer on the front cover. Another idea I’d been keen on was using the image of the broken workings of a clock, suggesting that the time (days and nights) had been lost. We’d also played around with the idea of somehow representing the logo in an interesting way. We should be meeting up with Alistair again soon to go through the ideas we had, the ideas he’s subsequently worked with, and work out what artwork we’ll be using where.
Cheers,
Stee J
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