What the ... ? Chris leaps gleefully off the deep end with this dramatic epic construction of electronics and electric guitar. Widely renowned for his hatred of software for pitch-correcting vocals, he nonetheless makes use of the same, with all the knobs cranked to 11 so that the vocals sound almost robotic. Despite the fact that he feels the track is unfinished (he had many ideas he didn't have time to implement), this is his most elaborate Song-a-Week production yet. Listen to it loud on good headphones.

Returning to some funky, bluesy flavors of his previous bands and musical endeavors, Erik sprinkles this number with a spicy sauce about half-way through it that might just conjure up the sounds of instruments that weren't actually played. The lyrics: there are always two sides of a conflict and nobody wants to be in the middle.

Returning to some funky, bluesy flavors of his previous bands and musical endeavors, Erik sprinkles this number with a spicy sauce about half-way through it that might just conjure up the sounds of instruments that weren't actually played. The lyrics: there are always two sides of a conflict and nobody wants to be in the middle.

Previously, on Song-a-Week 2007...: Richard turned in a SAW that had been recorded over the course of 5 days, but they were spread out in two groups across two weeks. Alas, some scoffed. So here is 32a, called 'Beneath this Moon', where Richard FINALLY gets to whistle! Yay!

Previously, on Song-a-Week 2007...: Richard turned in a SAW that had been recorded over the course of 5 days, but they were spread out in two groups across two weeks. Alas, some scoffed. So here is 32a, called 'Beneath this Moon', where Richard FINALLY gets to whistle! Yay!

Richard comes in for #32 with a heavily distorted atheist anthem. HOWEVER, while this song was written and recorded in less than seven days, they were not consecutive. Some have scoffed at this supposed bending of the rules (the rules that Richard made, that is, haha), so in penance he will be delivering another SAW in the next couple of days. Enjoy!

Chris is back with a track that started out meaning to be a sort of electric-guitar rocker and then got a bunch of keyboards draped over top (surprise, surprise!). There IS live bass guitar, though, for the first time in a long time. The song is an ode to Phoenix's summer monsoon, and ironically he worked all the way through a rainstorm to complete the song and completely missed it. Oh, cruel fate!

Erik dials up the tempo for this metaphor-filled number and there are lots of musical flavors in this pepped-up, peppery SAW. And if you don’t care for any of those, you can always entertain yourself by counting all the different “-tion” ended words employed in the lyrics!

Erik dials up the tempo for this metaphor-filled number and there are lots of musical flavors in this pepped-up, peppery SAW. And if you don’t care for any of those, you can always entertain yourself by counting all the different “-tion” ended words employed in the lyrics!

Richard comes in with a very distorted, bass heavy piece about... Saying please. Richard says that he's pretty happy with the guitar solo and all that, but the lyrics and vocals... Well, let's just thank him that they're low in the mix.