The World Wasn't Ready

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The follow-up album to 2022's I Wrote This Album Tomorrow, here's The World Wasn't Ready. The album is full of big, powerful rock, pop, and jazz numbers that you'll listen to again and again.

Liam was 12-years-old during the process of making this album, and wrote and performed nearly every note — including keys, saxophone, guitar, and bass. He even handled drum programming.

Dad Lex (mostly) writes the lyrics, Liam composes, and the two record together. This new album includes songs about Freddie Mercury, planes, cars, teleportation, steak, and the best song in the world.

Frequently asked questions

Did Liam really write these songs? Is he really 12?
Yes. Liam was really 12 during the recordings (throughout 2023). Liam's dad Lex (mostly) wrote the lyrics, and would hand those off to Liam, who would then put to music. Liam typically composes on the piano.

There's one song ("The True Story of My Siblings' Bus") that Lex wrote the core music for, but Liam added the the bass, a higher piano part, and more. On some tracks, Lex wrote the melody line on top of the music Liam composed. Lex and Liam wrote "Cars" together, and that was really, really fun. They should do that more.

What instruments does Liam play?
Liam plays the piano, the bass guitar, the saxophone, and the drums. On this album, more instrurments were recorded live than any other album from Liam: bass, guitar, keys, and sax. Keyboard parts were recorded initially into GarageBand on an iPad.

How did you technically make the album?
As per the above, Liam typically records from an electric piano or from instruments plugged into a digital interface that feed into GarageBand on an iPad. Then we import the full GarageBand project into Logic Pro on a Mac. We record vocals using a couple different USB microphones, sometimes on the iPad, sometimes on the Mac. We mix and master in Logic and Fission.

Copyright © 2023 Lex and Liam Friedman