"Their House in the Forest" is a very fantasy-like piano track with loads of reverb, set in a very large and open scene. It's a waltz, which is generally what most of my piano pieces become - I have some weird inclination towards 3/4 rhythm and structure. The bad thing about that is that I am horrible at coming up with good underlying beats for a 3/4 part...go figure. Anyway, the song carries with it the air of fantasy and offers a neat little illustration of a secluded getaway, albeit in a minor tone, where its inhabitants find solitude. It was just one of those little scenes I get sometimes that I end up laying down into a track. I really had no specific purpose or motive when writing it.

I thought it turned out quite thematic from this lack of direction. I just sat down at the piano, like I often do, and wrote it. It was very simple and quick to track, but the addition of the low pulsing rhythms and other various parts (to match the theme of the rest of the album) caused me to have trouble with mixing it. In fact I had more trouble mixing this track than any other one on the album ("Somewhere Outside" being the second hardest). I think the difficulty laid in my attempts to match the other tracks on The Darkness. I finally just came to the conclusion that it would have to work. The whole realm of acoustic to electro transitioning is fairly new and I don't have a lot of guides. There are a few artists out there that do similar things but nothing like I was trying to do with this album.

I think the beauty of this track is its ambiguity, and I don't think digging for motives is necessary.