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Released in August of 2005, Parables & Primes is Danny's third studio production, and fourth album in total. This is also the first album that Danny's produced in Austin. The first three were made, predominantly, in Charlottesville, VA. Here's what Danny has to say about Parables & Primes:"I was laying awake one night, when we'd just started with preproduction, and when we were still sifting through the tunes that might be on the record, and deciding which ones belonged together -- and there's a million ways you can group songs, along a million different themes or commonalities. But I'd picked out these eleven for some reason -- and I was laying awake trying to figure out why I thought they were all family with one another. That's when I came up with the title, Parables & Primes.The thing to me that these songs share is . . . well, they share two things, actually:1) They're written metaphorically and symbolically and in allegory and in parable. There are very few moments on this album that, if you can take them literally at all, don't represent something else, also. They're not all story songs, but I think they all pay homage, at least, to the sneaky power of story telling -- that a sharp-fanged truth might better sneak into the house wearing a pretty red hood.2) They deal with deep-down-in-your-marrow sort of primal themes. They, for the most part, speak to love and loneliness and mortality and health and hunger and the dirty and the divine. These aren't toaster oven songs. These are more fire circle songs. More dirt floor than linoleum. The topics are really pretty basic. Indivisible level kinds of things. Primes, in my mind -- late at night, anyway.Production-wise, I think there's a little bit more experimentation on this record than on previous ones -- a few more risks were taken and a few more departures were embarked upon. This record was, by far, the most nerve-racking for me to make, for that reason. We really approached each song as its own little sonic drama, and orchestrated them out fairly differently from one another.Track listing: 1. This Too Shall Pass 2. Neil Young3. Dark-Eyed Prince 4. Happy All The Time5. Riddles & Lies6. Esmee By The River7. Stained Glass8. Ghosts9. Beggars & Mules 10. A Circus Of Clowns11. Parables & PrimesMet dank aan Motormuijs