"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 third "volume", the project is entering the home stretch.

I wouldn't read too much into these "volumes", as the songs are simply compiled in the order they were released over the last three months. 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. There will be a fourth and final "volume" at the end of 2009.

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

As with "Volume II", all of the songs here are "solo" songs, recorded by me, mostly by myself, in my apartment. A couple of tracks have guest performers.

I think with this group of songs, you can hear me getting a bit bored with writing standard "rock band"-style tunes, and wanting to experiment with pieces of music that are quite a bit less structured, and frankly, a lot more weird. This is definitely the most "peculiar" of the three volumes so far.

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." 39 down, 13 more to come (I hope). Thanks for listening.