Lime Colony began independently and irreverently recording and producing music in 2007. Years later, things aren't the same and won't be the same. (Were they ever the same?) Whether or not we learned anything, we've still got some songs to sing.
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This EP contains four Lime Colony recordings spanning the years 2012-2023*, all of them finally dusted off and finished, done as they can be. Tracks 1 & 2 are over a decade old. Track 3 is happily bouncing to its third birthday. Track 4 was born long ago and recorded in 2017.
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While we were letting these songs rest, facts of life good and awful continued to shape the basis and relevance of this band. Here's an out-of-sequence, incomplete and unranked survey of our experiences: That global pandemic. The gutting, sudden stroke & passing of a father. Weddings in all directions. Moves out of town and out of state.
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Through some pandemic introspection and during Tim's relocation to Los Angeles, we rediscovered these neglected tracks which we had spent so much time to craft and record. For some reason we had set them aside, but they were all a few edits and overdubs away from mix-ready. And then for good measure we bundled in a newer song, too. So, it's with a kinda catharsis and maybe even a kinda feeling of redemption that we are finishing and sharing this music with friends and family and whomever else.


*An accounting:
We recorded True Rhapsody and Walking Home in the final weeks of 2012. These were originally envisioned as two tracks of an LP, which never came to be. Eventually Tim and Earl recorded vocals for Walking Home in a bedroom closet in Los Angeles in March of 2022, whence My Whole Life was also recorded. Earl wrote that one in 2021. He intended it as a happy-birthday song although everyone who listened thought it was a proposal song. (It was not! But yes, Earl later performed it at his wedding.) We captured most of Cut the Wire as a single performance at bassist Will's place in Berkeley in the summer of 2017, a few weeks before beloved drummer Colin's Big Move. Later that summer we tracked Gwen's tremendous rain-like viola and vocal parts. The bulk of Tim's Cut the Wire vocals came from his home studio in 2023.