“Far, Hidden & Away”
“The bones of this track were written for a side project that I had wanted to start that was sort of more ethereal, relaxing stuff. But once I realized that this project was taking shape (and the story behind it) I knew that this should lead it off.”
“Enter An Exit”
“This and the next track are both older and both tracks I wrote around the same time. I had been listening to a lot of darker electronic stuff and was sort of in that mind space. This one I actually wrote in a couple of hours and just put it away for a rainy day and when I was looking for skeletons to work on for the EP I found this and knew that it fit exactly what I wanted to put out. So I went in and polished it up and tada!”
“Stumbling”
“This track is the oldest one on the EP, it’s a track that I originally called Deville and started working on almost a year ago. I love this song, and it’s gone through SO many iterations. I had a cycle of working on it every few months nonstop to the point of complete frustration, then putting it down again. When I started this EP, this was the first track I finished because I knew it had to be a part of the project. I couldn’t be more excited that I finally finished it and it’s at the level I knew it could be when I started it.”
“To Run”
“This song was one of the last ones written, and I sort of knew what pieces needed to come into place before the EP could be done. I knew that I wanted to write something that was sort of clubby but still had the same aesthetic as the rest of the songs and I think I wrote this in one session (which is always reeeeeeally cool to do) and was like, yeah. This fits nicely.”
“Conflict”
“Similar to ‘Stumbling’ this song has taken me a while to write, I started it in September or October. It was the only song I wrote while I was on this bus tour with Bro Safari, and it was the thing that got me out of a creative slump that I was in at that time. It’s just sort of a roller coaster ride, and I remember playing it for a few people and had gotten some positive feedback so when I started the EP I knew that I wanted to bring this song in somewhere and try to fit it in.”
“The Clearing (Outro)”
“This track serves 2 purposes. On the surface it serves as the sort of cool down from the EP, in the same way that “Hidden, Far & Away” is an introduction. The second purpose is that it corresponds with the story behind my EP, and it is sort of a summative finale for the tale that I wrote to go along with the music.”
Check out this pretty amazing concept video for “The Clearing” EP release.
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