TILES

TILES - New Album Title, Tracklisting Revealed

Michigan-based prog-metallers TILES have checked in with the following update:

"We are pleased to announce that the fifth Tiles CD finally has a title - Fly Paper - and a tentative track listing:
'In My Shadow',
'Sacred & Mundane',
'Back & Forth',
'Landscrape', 'Markers',
'Dragons,
Dreams,
Daring Deeds',
'Hide & Seek'.

Coming up with a title always seems to be a challenge - but this time around it was especially difficult (dare we say "sticky?")... We had brainstormed about a hundred ideas - finally narrowing it down to two of the song titles ('Markers' and 'Hide In My Shadow') - then happened upon a couple new options that we liked better ('Fly Paper' and 'Stumbling Blocks') - ultimately deciding upon 'Fly Paper' with the help of Hugh Syme and Terry Brown (and a market survey of friends). Hugh has already started putting together some interesting ideas for the artwork - and I suspect we'll steer clear of too many "insect" references.

In other news.... we are excited to announce that ALANNAH MYLES has contributed a 'choir's-worth' of backing vocals to 'Back & Forth' (THE BEATLES would be proud!). Terry mixed Alannah's new CD Black Velvet - which will be released in June - so we took advantage of the connection and she accepted (lucky us!). There are a few more notable special guests lurking in the background - all courtesy of Terry - but we'll save those announcements for another time...

We'll finish up the remaining lead guitar, percussion, keyboards, and backing vocals during the next month and a half - including appearances from a few of our friends: Sonya Mastick (percussion); Matthew Parmenter (keyboards); and Kevin Chown (fretless bass cameo). We'll mix in June with a tentative release date for Fly Paper still set for fall 2007."