The Daytime Freqeuncy is the solo project of Matthew Sigley from The Lovetones, Video Video, Polak, The Steinbecks, The Earthmen and Drop City.

The fifth and final in a series of albums of unreleased songs - this time from when I returned to Australia from the UK.

The Great British Experiment over, I returned to Melbourne at the end of 2001.

Reunited with my upright piano and with all my Tascam and other instruments shipped back from the UK, I started writing and recording again. In 2002 I put a live band together featuring Marcel Borrack on guitar, Dave Owen on bass and Derek John Yuen on drums. I was reading a lot of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon books and listening to the AM radio station Magic 693 which is evident in two of the three songs I recorded in 2002 - Pictures And Paraphernalia and I Don't Want To See You Tonight.

In April 2003, unhappy with city life, I packed up and moved to Kyneton in the Central Highlands of Victoria. Two weeks later I was touring the West Coast of America with The Lovetones and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. An amazing experience and the first of many tours we played together. It was also the first time I met Anton Newcombe. I played him some of my demos and he said "Elliott would love these - we should go around to his place and see him". "Elliott who?" I asked. "Elliott Smith" he replied. Being a massive fan of Elliott's I could barely believe this meeting may happen. Unfortunately we ran out of time and the visit was postponed until my next visit to LA. Six months later Elliott was dead.

On the last night of the tour I wrote a song for two friends of mine - Frankie and Erika, on a toy piano at a party at Rob Campanella of the Brian Jonestown Massacre's house. Armed with that song and my West Coast experiences I returned to Kyneton and started writing songs that would eventually end up on The Daytime Frequency's debut album Sun Opus Is Upon Us. Anton put five of the four track songs that are featured in this collection up on the Brian Jonestown Massacre's page (with my blessing) in 2004 for free download. Years later I would still meet people who knew the songs The Ballad Of Frankie And Erika and There Is No Rhyme from the exposure Anton gave them on his website (though people would refer to them as Sunshine In My Hand and Season Of Doubt as opposed to their actual titles.)

I was spending a lot of time hanging around with trees. The US experience and my move to the country went towards creating this new organic sound in my songs. I was using the upright piano more and banging bongos with mallets and playing triangles and maracas to create percussive tracks rather than using drum machines. Except for the song My Old Friend (which is an odd song anyway - I don't know what I was trying to sound like) where I played the drums by hand on a the keys of crappy old Casio keyboard.

The song Everyone's A Genius was written and recorded around this same time and ended up being re-recorded for The Lovetones' Meditations album under the name Genius. This original four track version features all of the verses that didn't make it into The Lovetones version (though we did record an 8 minute version of it which featured all the verses prior to the "psychedelic middle 8". It may see the light one day.)

On the 21st October 2003 I heard that Elliott Smith had died and was numb with shock. I went for a very long walk along the river that day and came home and wrote and recorded the last two songs on this album - Marking Time and The World Is To Blame. I don't know how I did it. They just came out without me even thinking about them.

Sometime at the end of 2003 or the beginning of 2004 I bought my first computer and Pro Tools recording system and my faithful Tascam 234 Four Track was retired. I still have it though it's currently not working.

I hope you have enjoyed this journey with my Tascam and me from 1998 to 2003.

I know we had fun.