The school year is coming to a close. Only one and a half more weeks left in the third year of our college career! And unfortunately that means another break from new Limited Time Offer music. Seems not too long ago when we came back together to start writing; a shame that it has to end again. After this we won't be seeing each other til the new year; thus, we have a lot to do before we say our momentary farewells.

We've posted a new song, "Grey Sweater," on Myspace. It is a pretty experiemental song for us, and as far as mixing and mastering goes, probably one of the most difficult pieces for me to mix so far. As far as straight up layers go, this song has more than 20. For example, the soaring "ahhs" that come in on the second chorus are comprised of four layers of separate vocal tracks to get that echo-ey, chorus-like sound.

Finals are next week but somehow, someway, we'll finish what we've set to do. Of the 13 or so songs we have written, 9 will for sure make it onto the next "CD." Five of them have been recorded. And we're currently writing two more, extremely promising pieces.

Enjoy the new music, tell us what you think! And, as always, downloading is disabled because Myspace quality sucks; any songs you want, feel free to email or contact us and we'll send them to you!

What is with spring quarter?

Apparently, it's already fourth week. And I've seen way too little of my friends, writing music, the sun, warm weather, and the beach. What's going on, spring quarter? I lived through winter quarter in jackets and scarves for the promise of waves and bodyboarding! I dropped a class and still no time for spring enjoyment! There have been maybe a total of two days that have passed this quarter that have been warm enough for the beach, and that's 26 days too little.

This quarter has also been unexpectedly busy. First round of midterms is ramping up but, even though I honestly haven't studied that much or anything for the first three weeks, I've still always been busy. SOMEthing. (Oh that's right, I spent a whole week of spring quarter w/ strep throat = FUN) Already fourth week and zero out of eight songs recorded for LTO's new album; can you say epic fail? This quarter is passing by way too fast and I am not embracing enough of it. I feel like I should since I'm spending fall in Taiwan. I feel like I should be doing more with my quarter, and more with my college experience before the death that is med school.

The sad part is that the next time I will be free to do stuff is sixth week.

The sadder part is that I'll probably spend most of it in the living room in front of my television.
BRING ON THE SUN!

P.S. Anyone looking for new music needs to listen to the new She & Him CD. It's fantastically brilliant, and it's got a really nice warm 50's vibe to it. Plus "She" is Zooey Deschanel and she is a total cutie with a serious voice.

Well, it's the weekend eve before finals, and that can only mean one thing: I'm doing everything BUT studying. It's not on purpose or anything. It's just a gravity that pulls relentlessly. If I am a satellite then procrastination is my earth. And actual studying is, I don't know... Jupiter.

The good news is that I come bearing more Limited Time Offer songs. Marie and I have been working on a few songs and we finished them in time for the quarter end. It has been a productive quarter, song-wise; after almost a year apart we hit the ground running. We wrote about six songs, and finished recording and mixing three of them, and we're pretty happy with how they've turned out. I am sure you have all already heard "Stable." The two new songs I'm adding to el Myspace (www.myspace.com/ltdtimeoffer) are called "Purge" and "Morning Cartoons."

"Purge" is a nice, simple song about finding yourself in unfamiliar places and longing for old friends. It's a feeling I've been getting lately, throwing myself into new groups of friends and detaching myself from an old lifestyle. Marie wrote a pretty darn catchy guitar part, and we both wanted the final recording of this song to sound like a live show of the song of sorts. Very simple and very fresh.

"Morning Cartoons" became a sort of epic orchestral song which, to be honest, was not how we imagined it. This song is, quite simply, about losing childhood innocence. The first half is done up in a ye olde radio style and it transitions to this billowing, wavy cello section second half that brings matters home. Not very simple, not very fresh. We like it, and we hope you guys do too.

Oh, and in case no one noticed, we've started making little videos of ourselves covering other songs. Last week we tried our hand at Death Cab's "I Will Follow You Into The Dark," and... it was ok. We've got something pretty spectacularly hard and fun next week after finals, so watch out for that. The video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2sTtq0oPQ

Anyway, hope you guys check out the music and tell us what you think!

PS Wish us luck on finals lol