Auger

Auger’s title is vaguely inspired by the second verse of Walking home. Auger, as in the thing you use to make holes in the ice. Overall, the album is about major change, or about getting over something old and getting on with something new. The two first tracks, Destroyer and Trace took the train, are both about relationships that burn out with a searing flash. In Destroyer it’s a friendship that, if nothing else, at least leaves you changed, and in Trace it’s a hard and heavy relationship that ends in good, old-fashioned, passionate anger. In his wildest dreams is one of the first songs I ever wrote, and tells the story of an old man, who can’t do anything anymore – not even die – but who finds freedom in his imagination. In Burden free I try to talk about how becoming part of another family is part of starting a new relationship. Joker in a house of cards is much too poetic version of myself during a time when I didn’t know what I wanted or how to find out. I didn’t write the lyrics to Join the stampede but I put it on this album because its call to reason and demand for change fits really well with the rest of the songs. And then there’s Walking home, the last in a long line of walks home from nights on the town. I recall waking up, remembering that I’d had a really important conversation the night before, but not with whom. In the song it’s myself.