Maximum Ames Records will provide a soundtrack for next year’s Valentines Day.

Due out in February of 2014, the musicians of central Iowa and their significant others will put out a compilation album which will feature songs the couples wrote together. The record can be preordered through Maximum Ames and the buyer will be given a song a month until the release.

 

 “I had the idea at Elliot Imes’s wedding…and I brought up the idea just kind of jokingly like ‘hey, we should do a record of songs that are just couples writing songs together and recording together as a Valentines Day thing…and here we are seven months later” Patrick Fleming, the front man and guitarist of the Poison Control Center said.

 

Each couple chose their own way to record and produce their song. Logsdon and his girlfriend, Adrien Daller of the band, Trouble Lights, recorded their song in the Spacement.

 

“Each of the couples went to a studio that they were familiar with or in their home studios,” Nate Logsdon, front man and trumpeter of the band Mumford’s said.

 

“Our song is called ‘Physic Baby’” and it came about because Adrien and I make up these funny little ditties that we sing to each other, “ Logsdon said. “And whenever she would know what I was going to say or knew what I was thinking, I would sing her this ditty about her being my physic baby and we just flushed that out into a song.”

 

Having two musicians who write music in different ways create a song together may seem like a difficult task, Logsdon says the results will be interesting

 

“Each couple will kind of combine their styles, and each song is collaborative between the couples,” Logsdon said. “Adrien and I have different ways that we right music but when we made the song, we combined our way of doing it.”

 

“There’s nothing more exciting then collaborating and creating something with the person you love most, your best friend” Fleming said. “I think that’s what couples do in their everyday life, whether you’re making dinner, writing a song or the way you fold laundry. The other person is going to influence your way of doing it.”

 

The mystery of love is broadly defined, but both Logsdon and Fleming seem to have found it,

 

 “To me love means trust, being able to respect one another and genuinely being able to give a big part of your life and yourself to another person to expand yourself and expand your life,” Logsdon said.

 

 

 

“Love is real, love is understanding, love is patience and all sorts of different things. But when you find it, you’ll know,” Fleming said.