This Collection -

All of the tracks in this collection were written throughout 2018, originally with the intent of acting as a follow up E.P/Album to 2017’s 'A Better Way Of Living'. The aim was a natural development that still embraced our indie pop routes, whilst experimenting with new influences and genres.
The reason that I decided to call this collection 'Transition' is because almost every track is reflective of my mind-set during one of the most transformative periods of my life.
All of these tracks were written, arranged and performed by Jax Richardson, mixed and mastered by Fiachra Mac Oireachtai.

The Concept -

For a long time, I found the traditional formats of release – Singles, E.Ps or Albums – to be quite limiting.
I released one E.P and struggled with balancing variety and cohesion in such a short format. I considered going the route of releasing via singles but the rate of release vs the rate of creation was, in theory, even more unsatisfying. In terms of releasing an album, many people advised me that, at this point in my career, it would be a bad idea. Originally I rebelled against and began preparing the first Sad Clown album but, as always, the same problems occurred during the process. My interest in other genres began to pull me in various directions. Sometimes this would add variety to an otherwise cohesive set of tracks. Other times, it created something that was appropriate to Sad Clown but not appropriate for the collection of songs currently being built. The need for different collaborators, musicians, producers had an effect. The need for different productional approaches had an effect. The balance of influences had an effect. It was almost like I was starting to accidentally create two or three albums at once, that, while awkward in terms of release, is the way I have always worked.

After changing my plans numerous times, as I've done with almost every project to date, I ultimately decided that I needed to simplify. There is a lot of material that is ready and that we want to share but have been limited by practicalities of format. So for the time being we are not planning on releasing any more singles, E.Ps or albums in the traditional sense.
Given that nowadays people tend to experience music separate from these pre-established formats anyway, moving forward we will be building collections, allowing libraries of tracks to assemble organically over time.

Songs will be added to each collection as and when it feels natural to do so. There will be no pre-planned schedules. The collections will grow at whatever rate it feels natural to do so and also potentially stop growing when it feels natural to do so. This will also allow us to experiment with the rate of release.

What separates the tracks in each collection could vary. It could be the performers, the mixers and masterers, the genre focus, subject matter or even just timing.
The idea is that, as we hone our sound and figure out who we are, we can still be sharing music with you in a way that feels organic to us.