Mother Bodfish was the name that Peter and Joe Johnston gave their collaboration. They met while Peter was living near the ocean, on Cape Cod, with his then girlfriend. Peter and Joe play the keyboards and guitar respectively and sing original compositions based around poetry and fictitious personas.

There's a cathartic quality to this period that's evident in Peter's embrace of chaos in both his life and his music. The music is often highly amplified, distorted, pushed to the threshold. Peter was out to break something. Actual circumstances in his life were converging towards a seismic shift, and in the bipolar monster surf of his careening state of mind, the muse was all hands on deck. This is not to say that he could not also take on methodical pieces, step back, and relinquish the wheel. Despite everything that conspired to undo Peter, he winks at us from these recordings, a soul who knew his quickest relief lay in play, and parody, and that peculiar remedy artists employ of immortalizing their personal lives in their mediums of choice.

This is the log of the good ship Mother Bodfish, and the boys that went down with her.