"5240" is not an album, per se. It is an experiment I'm conducting this year - writing, recording, and releasing a new song every week for the entirety of 2009. If I'm successful, that means I'll have made 52 new songs in one year. I don't think I've ever finished ten songs in one year before.

With the completion of this second "volume", the project is now half over.

I wouldn't read too much into these "volumes", the songs are compiled in the order they were released. In most cases, there was no "grand plan" or anything, I literally was writing the song only days before it posted, with no thought to any sort of "album flow." I'm grouping the songs in this way to make it easier for people who are interested, but maybe late to the project, to be able to download the year's output thus far in larger blobs. I'll make a new "volume" every quarter.

This volume is called "Spring" mostly because it was spring time while I worked on these tunes.

This time, all of the songs are "solo" songs, recorded by me in my apartment(s). A couple of tracks have guest performers.

So much happened in this stretch of time - I had been unemployed for a couple of months straight at the beginning of the year, and thus was forced to move to a more affordable apartment. Somehow, I kept the output coming, but there were times during the spring where I really, REALLY came close to quitting. Still going, though.

I hope you can find some songs you like in here, and I'd love to see you come by Monday mornings to www.shawnfarley.com as each new song is "released." 26 down, 26 more to come (I hope). Thanks for listening.