In between hitting F5 continuously on Fox Amoore's page, music writing has been proceeding surprisingly fast, and today the first of the songs on the new still-unnamed album was finished. It's a medium-fast piece, alternating between minor verses and major choruses in a similar way to A Thousand Lives, and is named what might be the longest song title I've ever used - Be More Than Just a Number. It also uses a chiptune-like instrument that hasn't appeared in any of my music before, embracing the electronic side of it a little more. Also a first time for me, it has a fadeout rather than a "proper" ending. I've never liked those myself, but sometimes, as I've discovered, it seems to fit.

In fact, so many songs have taken shape that I'm able to provide a likely tracklist for the collection. We'll see how similar it turns out...

Tracklist for Unnamed Eighth Album (Counting The First Three That Were Mostly Rubbish)

1. Welcome to the Machine - Needs most of its lyrics
2. Be More Than Just a Number - 5:42
3. Two Souls, One Mind - Halfway
4. Tale of the Cave - Almost there
5. Pathfinder - Hardly started
6. Invisible - Little more than a chorus
7. Wonder - Haven't started
8. The Last Day - Planned but not written
9. When the Machine Stops - Cover/"bonus" song, written by a Tibetian musician called Atlantis