Sugarcoated tears — the making of Liars in Love

It is amusing to read Nick’s beautiful descriptions of how we made this 3rd Treeball album. He has put behind him the frustration and anger that accompanied the process and made it horrific at times. There was no label, no budget to start with. We had come back from our Canadian tour in the fall 2004 and from there on Nick anxiously wanted us to start the new album. But there were obstacles on the way, like the making of my solo record, and the absence of excitement about the way Nick planned we’d do the album. I had heard the songs a million times in my home, but other members had no idea what they would be recording.

Everything got oh, so boring, slow and frustrating. Accusations flew as time passed. Deadlines were never met, no lyrics were written and Nick was still talking about 20 songs and a double album…

And the home sessions. This is my advice: never record at home with your boyfriend. It would be too tedious to drag my mind through all the arguments we had about whose fault it is that Treeball still hasn’t finished their album. But be certain, it wasn’t all sweethearts and young love in our living room!

As months hummed by we finally saw that finishing 20 tracks in our environment would create a time bomb, so we cut the project at 12 tracks.

There I sat on our kitchen ladder chair, singing lyrics through a pop filter made out of my stockings and an old necklace of mine, swallowing sugarcoated tears.

So any feeling, sad or happy, on Liars in Love has truly been felt in the course of making this album. We’re still working together, and songs like Smooth Fruit make me especially proud of our approach.

I am not undermining Treeball, or this album in talking like this. I think my point of view is valid and will give listeners another exciting perspective. We do not mind being compared to Fleetwood Mac, although it is all quite mild compared to their stories still.