To set the scene, I started a project idea where I decided that I'd make a corny punk record that 15 year old me would have loved.
I've started songwriting and drafting, but I've noticed that while some songs are hitting the mark of being genre-aligned to bubblegum skate punk (where I was aiming), many of the ideas are coming out off-genre enough to be jarring. I've got songs that are shaping into alt or yob-rock, there's some stuff that's a bit too riff/fuzz focused. There's a ballad that's not that punk at all.
I showed my main songwriting partner where I was upto to get some advice and he was like "Dude, these songs are clearly for separate projects and that's fine". But, that doesn't align to what I want in this instance, which is to turn this burst of songwriting effort into one outcome. I don't want to ADHD songwrite my way into 5-6 different 'starter songs' for 6-15 plausible project EPs.
So, I'm looking for practical advice and suggestions from people who have been in this situation and have managed it, to result in a cohesive record that might be a bit diverse; but that definitely has a gravitational pull toward a clear intention.
And; like not to sound snarky but just to pre-empt, I don't need to be told that what I'm worried about doesn't matter and that nobody gives a fuck and that lots of bands genre bend across the course of an album. With full respect, If I was satisfied with this as a solution, I wouldn't have posted :)