“What Time Is It Now” is the opening track from the new album Person number. This one features my friend Antoine Bédard from Montag on backing vocals. Here’s a direct MP3 link (right-click and save), or you can stream it below. Some blogs have said some nice things about it (here, here, here). Feel free to download it, share it, post it. Lyrics and more about the song below. This song was written around the time I was relocating to Gothenburg, full of references to the quirks of living overseas. (Government TV controllers knocking on our door?)

Antoine and I have only met once in real life. We were both on tour in Japan and happened to bump into each other in a hotel lobby. I had remixed his song Alice, and he had just finished a remix of the Boy in Static song “Young San Francisco.” Having his vocals on this track just seemed right.

Other things are in the works for this song. Just finished mastering a digital single with remixes by Lymbyc Systym, Blue Sky Black Death, and T.H. White. Also have a music video in the works by Nando Costa. Should be unrolling these in the next couple months.

For now, here’s the album version. Feel free to share it, blog it, etc. Download MP3 (right-click and save) or stream from Soundcloud:

I can’t decide, NTSC
We fought about it three times, A or B
Just check me in, smuggle me overseas

We’ll brave umlauts, Nordic seas
Won’t let the government find our TV’s
We’ll give ourselves new names for Nordea

What time is it now in Sweden?
When’s the sunrise in Gothenburg?
What time is it now?

September, give me your 30 days
You won’t be missed, so promptly vacate
You bring shame to the family name

We’ll optimize and make a home
A pair of trailing spouses, whoa
We’ll navigate the Atlantic by our SWIFT codes