Update on the Wolves & Sheep hip hop and rock concept album “Grey Expectations”
I know it’s been a minute. To those of you who have been waiting patiently for the arrival of the Wolves & Sheep concept album “Grey Expectations” … we are sorry for the delay. The road has been a bit bumpy lately for many of us in the band, and I’m sure it’s been rough for many of you as well. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully there’s not a freight train attached to it.
You’ll notice that we have a new album cover, designed by Liv Caspersson who is the daughter of my mentor, colleague, and good friend Ian Caspersson from IC9Design. Ian has done a good portion of the Wolves & Sheep artwork including the logo and wolf and sheep images. More on the album cover in a later post.
So where to begin. Well we ran into some snags during mixing. I’m sure DJ Silent Beard would love to tell you all about it, but unfortunately, he’s sticking to his code of silence. Maybe one day we’ll get him on the AMP’D UP podcast and he can tell everyone why it’s taken us 8 months to ‘almost’ be close to mixing. Could it have something to do with covid? Perhaps it’s the 17 songs containing what he would probably say are “too many vocal tracks?” Maybe his computer crashed? I’m not saying it was aliens… but it was definitely aliens.
The good news is that after they showed us all the meaning of life, they added more tambourine and digitally enhanced every one of Robin’s high hats. So what does that mean exactly? It means that Tyler has to drive 16 hours to Maryland… avoiding hotels because those places were germ farms before the coronavirus… and spend a week with Kit Whitacre and Ryan Billings (aka the beard that is silent) wearing masks and making donuts.
I wanted this album mixed by the end of March. While we’re being honest, I don’t really want to make this trip. This whole virus thing is annoying. I’m gonna miss my family. Hopefully I’m making the right decision by driving down there. I want this concept album to sound amazing and Ryan and Kit have done a great job up to this point. “Grey Expectations” needs a little TLC.
I’ve been absent from social media. I miss all the friends… and fans. All of us in Wolves & Sheep miss you. We’ve been in our caves. Well maybe I’m the only one who retreated to his cave. Kai has been in need of a great deal of attention. I couldn’t find time to work on mixes and marketing and all the other stuff while still being attentive to her and Alex. But I did manage to find time to put together a free 5-song EP that I’m going to release soon as a thank you to all the fans for supporting us on this adventure… that still isn’t done yet.
But I promise that it will be done soon. We hope that you all haven’t checked out on us. We’ll be back on all our social media platforms soon and can’t wait to see what you all have been up to.
“Grey Expectations”… coming sometime before the velociraptor hummingbirds and the covid-19 vaccine. Stay tuned for continuous updates including behind the scenes stories from the making of the album.
Tyler Durdin from Wolves & Sheep