In The Red is a selection of songs Emily MacLaren had composed and been playing live with the various incarnations of Michael Dracula as it had evolved over the past 4 years. Although it was two years in the making, and was first conceived as a sort of obituary to the first four years of Michael Dracula, In The Red (so named due to blighted finances and two weeks spent mixing in a freezing November with no heat due to French utilities supplier's "red days") will always be a sort of work in progress, as much of our recording technique and style was really just a mix of instinct and accident. The result is just what was expected : driving rhythms on an out of tune piano, repetitive drums with minimal fills, black (motown, dub) basslines played by a white girl from Ohio, five guitar parts all playing the same wrong note while the ghost of an organ hums a tune on the periphery of your hearing, and a chorus of backing vocals chanting from the bathroom, all providing the backing track for songs about the complexities of human relationships, and getting fucked up.<++CUT++> Michael Dracula is currently setting up an analogue recording studio in Glasgow and hope to begin recording the second album, The Last Lost Weekend, with her current band as more of a live album, in the autumn.