Heartland

That nice Mr Marx wrote:Sleep easy in your beds tonight, I can subtract 2 from 11.

The main reason for only 7 tracks making it to the album is bound up in
something one of the replies touched on - namely that I (like them) felt
weird about the notion of the album (is this the only material even
remotely connected with the Sisters that is ever going to emerge now ?)

I hadn't embarked on the project way back when with the intention of
singing the tunes or anything else - it was a genuine offer to collaborate
with Andrew. Once that wasn't a viable idea I decided to finish the tunes
myself, but within that process it became quite difficult to know exactly
how to approach it. Whether I was impersonating his style of writing and
singing (which I clearly can't) or delivering something of myself which
it's not really either. Suffice to say that the twin life caught up with
me and I left two tracks without vocals figuring the seven showed the
general terrain we might have covered. I did consider including them just
as backing tracks but that wouldn't have been right either as they were
never conceived as instrumentals (unlike Phantom for instance).

For what it's worth I didn't set out to write songs for Andrew, but rather
to write with him, and agree that it's fairly absurd to imagine Eldritch
doing an entire album of my words and music. What attracted me to him in
the first place was his ability as a songwriter after all. I think of it
in a similar way to the FALAA demos of me and Wayne singing - the
difference of course being that FALAA came out with all four members
present and correct.

It's perhaps worth considering as a closing thought that for a long time
it really didn't look like Eldritch would finish that album either and the
version of Marian I delivered and the 'lesser-spotted' version of what
became Nine While Nine might have been the only indicators of what that
album could've become.