“One Four Five” is one I had entirely forgotten about until I did this bit of winter housekeeping. I’ll expand on that one. I can noodle over that progression forever. The trick will be finding a strong melody for it.

“Araby” is a track I’ve had around for years but have never recorded. That one is close to done. Some of the bridge parts (toward the end) are brand new. So I’m still tinkering with them.

Good point about the percussion. I really could use a drummer as a collaborator. I lay the drum track first and rarely revisit it. But all of the drum tracks need work. And I’ll take your advice about mixing them in lower.

I recorded “Postage” as a backing track for a guitarist friend, who was going to add some lines over the top. But that never really happened, so I’m going to take it myself and add a melody to it. I have another mix of it where all the parts are repeated half as many times. So I’ll go back to that one and try to find a melody. Good call on the Police vibe. That whole piece stared out with the electric guitar, which is a Telecaster (like Summers’) and the most Police-ish patch I could find. :)