Adam

These songs are me working through things after a nearly decade long relationship ended. I handle grief with distraction, in work, and art, through learning new things and challenging myself. This collection is the fruit of that labor.

It’s me exploring how to use my voice as an instrument. To this point, I was always a guitarist and producer and never attempted being a vocalist. I still can’t be that vulnerable on a stage.

They are also examples of me learning how to write by myself; I’d always had a collaborator in the past. It’s true what they say about surrounding yourself with people who are better than you, by the way. I’m fortunate to come from an area where music is special, and was lucky enough to have moved somewhere that it is revered, and if there is anything good in what I made, it came from learning the “language” of the talented creative people all around me.

A few songs came a bit later chronologically, but share the theme and hint at how I’ve evolved a bit as an artist, so I included them.

Writing, recording, and producing everything by myself was important for me. It was all done in my home, which was even more important. At that time, I needed to see the mirror image reflected between my art and my life and understand that I could be okay being alone. The process led me to new passions and dreams that keep me motivated and helped give me the peace for which I was looking.

They’re unfinished demos to me, and maybe they’ll never be finished, because I love them in their raw, messy form. I want them to be accessible because listening to them reminds me that I had room to grow. It’s a bittersweet ending, but there’s hope