The New Album Begins...So Much Uncertainty!

We are still in the beginning stages of recording the new album.  Anytime we start this process, there is just so much uncertainty about what the finished album will be like.  Will it match up to our own expectations?  Do the songs really represent a leap forward?  Is it going to sound OK?  I think I drive myself crazy sometimes thinking about that non-sense.  It's only heightened by the fact that Liquid Casing does EVERYTHING for each album.  Writing, arranging, producing, recording, mixing, mastering, scheduling, artwork, printing, folding, and cutting those fucking little annoying u-cards for the CD trays.  I know that in each little area, I want the new album to be better than the last.  (That's right, the next U-card is going to beat the shit out of the one from An Empty Sparking Light.)   The only way to stop thinking about the uncertainty of what the new album will bring, is just to put our heads down and start doing it.  At some point, we might look up and realize, this is starting to make sense and the vision has become clear.  Unfortunately, we're just starting and there is a long road ahead.  But, on the bright side, I like the songs we are playing, and we've played most of them live, so it's not a mystery as to what works.