Review
A few words from outside the room.
Not every review is kind. This one, thankfully, had taste.
“The album starts to feel like a flood when a storm would’ve done.”
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After Hours
Reviews, fragments, and the occasional dignified failure.
A room for the things that don’t quite belong on the main pages, but still belong to BAYSGATE.
Erica
Short appearances. Small interruptions.
A few extra moments from Erica, kept off the main pages.
Studio Notes
This is where the page gets its soul.
Short notes. Not essays. Just enough context to make the project feel lived in.
180 versions later.
One track took roughly 180 attempts to stop behaving like a dare and start behaving like a song.
The ones that were too tidy.
A surprising number of tracks failed by being technically fine and emotionally vacant.
Not every good idea belonged on the same album.
Useful lesson. Expensive lesson.
Some songs were saved by one line.
Not a chorus. Not production. Just one line good enough to stop the whole thing being abandoned.
Erica’s favourite song is still You Would Have Liked Her.
It starts as jealousy and ends as identity. That’s usually a stronger song than it first appears to be.
A good number of the rejected versions were not bad.
They were worse than the truth.
Outtake
Version 24. We moved on.
A little less “face of the project,” a little more “this mix has personally offended me.” Useful energy, honestly.
The ideal expression for any take that was technically fine and spiritually incorrect.