We have continued our aural experimentations and explorations, over the weekend. Our goal: the shimmering mirage-like prospect of our EP. Songs have been lined up, paraded and inspected (like so many toy soldiers), and arrangements sketched.

'Octavia' is beginning to take shape: stuttering cello figures, a pulsing guitar and – now – some pseudo-military snare drumming.

Sadly, though – midnight having passed some minutes ago – these and other myriad sonic possibilities must be abandoned for the night.

Cogwheel Dogs have spent the past few days in a caffeine- and raspberry-fuelled fest of musicmaking.

We are setting down the bones of our next opus - provisionally anticipated to take the form of an EP. So microphones were arrayed, guitar strings changed, and duvets strung up like (peculiarly inefficient) sails.

We concentrated on three songs: Power in Paper (a rough, 'unplugged' recording of which is available on our website), Octavia (snakes and ladders to a soundtrack of creaksqueaky chamber cello) and Kitchen (sliced eggs, scritchy electric guitars and dying insect drums).

It's all been most exciting.

Thanks to everyone, incidentally, that came to our Death Disco show on Wednesday. Our throats have just about recovered, now, to the extent that normal speech is possible.

Or whatever passes for normal speech in our world.

Barricaded up in our attic, Cogwheel Dogs have spent many December hours strumming, bowing, singing, plucking, scraping, hoovering, creaking and squeaking – in the name of musical creation.

Our labours (some of them, at least) are coming to fruition. In the next few days – as a New Year's gift, if you like – we'll be uploading a newly-recorded song for free download.

Furthermore, we are excited to announce that we will be releasing our first single in the new year. We'll give more details soon.

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