Sequencing an album might prove to be a little hard when you limit yourself to eight songs. On one hand, Eric Church keeping it at such a tight amount of songs makes for a concise listen. All killer, no filler is the name of the game and he sticks true to that idea for his upcoming album Evangeline vs. The Machine. However, on the other hand, some artists find their songs to be like their babies. It ends up becoming an agonizing exercise, trying to pick a favorite out of all your children.
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For Church, his editing process is extremely intricate for his latest project. Lately, he's been filming these videos for social media, explaining his artistic process behind Evangeline vs. The Machine. Recently, he released one video, explaining the delicate process of narrowing down songs for the album. "With picking the songs on this album, I mean... it varies," he says.
"There's a number of songs that I wrote by myself. There's a number of songs I wrote with co-writers, songs I didn't write," Church adds. "And I think I was looking for what song would fit the mood and temperament of the room I was in with the instrumentation. And that's not every song, you know?"
Eric Church Breaks Down His Editing Process for His Album Tracklist
"There's a lot of songs that are great songs that we thought about for this project and (they) just didn't fit what we had in the room. I think that was maybe the biggest challenge of this album," Church continues. "Finding songs that fit what I want to do creatively but also fit what the room could do creatively. I think that the marrying of that was where the real thought process went in on this album."
It's that degree of detail and love that makes Eric Church one of the best artists working in country today. We'll have to see if he keeps the rest of those songs he talked about in the vault or if he repurposes them in another way.
