It’s 11am in a very sunny Los Angeles when Prog catches up with Pattern-Seeking Animals keyboard player/multi-instrumentalist, main writer and producer John Boegehold, and he’s already been up for more than five hours. It’s an almost daily routine that allows time to boot up his studio to write and demo material before tackling his ‘proper job’ in property management, and he’ll keep toying with ideas throughout the day. This cycle of writing partly explains the vast pool of music (more than 200 songs, he estimates) Boegehold has amassed for a number of collaborations, film soundtrack work, contributions to Spock’s Beard over the last 20 years and the already enviable back catalogue assembled by Pattern-Seeking Animals since 2018.
“When it gets to the point where I think, ‘Oh, that would be a cool song’ then I go full-speed ahead, I’ll put all the tracks together and send
