"The Life and Times of Dr. Morris Leifer" was mostly written and recorded between 2008 and 2009. The album was put on hold for other projects and not picked back up until December of 2010, and at that point the finishing touches were added, some extra things were recorded and it was finally finished.

This album is mostly a concept album about a sick and elderly man in a retirement home, with other songs about confusion, anger, regret, and oddities that fit the mood of the album, or fit what I think Morris would have stressed about in years past.

Morris is loosely based on a real person with the same name. Julie worked at a retirement home for quite some time and told me many stories about the elderly folk she had to deal with. Her favorite was a man with little to no memory left named Morris.

The album is told from different story tellers, and held together by retro daytime drama sound clips (which seemed suiting) but mostly tells the story of the final days of a man whose memory and sense of reality comes and goes without warning.

For whatever reason, I really felt like I could relate to that feeling at the time. Sometimes I envied Morris, and sometimes pitied him, or just wished he would pass on to whatever was next.

After the songs just sat around for nearly two years, and I kept on writing more, decided it would be best to throw them all together in the "Sounds" collection as a semi-cohesive body of music for human consumption.