if you get it on Bandcamp, you also get liner notes with the chords to "Hey, Boy!" and the tuning of "There You Go" (the notes are pretty easy to work out from there!)

there's only one guitar in the whole album :-P even the bass part in "Give Us" is a guitar transposed down — we do HAVE a bass (and it was right next to us while we recorded), we just didn't use it. still not sure why, actually xD

"Hey, Boy!" and "There You Go" were both written in advance, but "Give Us Something On Drums" was entirely improvised with a multi-track setup — none of the instrumental parts got re-recorded, we just added layers on top! (which is why it floats untethered by "metre" and "tonality", lol)

the whole album is by Gene and Sticks, but all the lyrics are by Gene, except roughly 1/2 of the dialogue in "Give Us Something On Drums", which is courtesy of Sticks! (he's on the right-side track!)

oh word, that’s great advice! it’s like writing poetry, then :o thanks so much!!

i don't know how to break it to you but you follow a LOT of bird accounts

aw man that sounds super tough D: we'd offer advice if we could but we don't have the same sort of memory barrier issues. we're happy to share stuff/help you put together cheat sheets/whatever to the best of our ability though! <3

oh awesome! somehow we haven't made an instagram account yet; thanks for reminding us :D gave you a follow! <3

guh, we feel that!!! music is a super personal thing & it can be absolutely terrifying to share it at all, let alone online. if you ever want to discuss music (be it commiseration or theory), we'd be totally down for that!

oh we feel that!! i know you said 'phone notes' and all, but do you/would you ever share some of your poetry? :o we'd love to read it!!

yo!! musicy systemy twins!! ❤️ and oh goodness we feel you on the writing:recording, we’ve been so busy but!! so full of feelings!!