Cry In The Dark

Excerpts from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

Paul Westerberg once told me to not put my best songs at the end of the album — put them up front where people will hear them. But he doesn’t take his own advice (“Answering Machine,” etc.) so why should I?

I recorded my vocals in the control room without using headphones, singing along to the musical tracks coming through the room speakers. That was a first for me, and it was freeing. Headphones can be stifling. The sound that comes through them is not real sound. When sound comes through the air, it is real sound, I think.

Andy played the omnichord. What a beautiful sound. I need one of those.

And the key change at the end? Why does it make me so happy to hear it, every time it happens? There isn’t enough modulating happening in music these days. I’ve got to set an example and bring it back. I vow to put a last-chorus modulation in the next song I write.