New Album

Sometime this week I'll have my latest album uploaded (once dusty and kyle can agree on a name) and I just wanted to sort of explain the songs a bit, maybe even to myself. Nothing I write happens on purpose. Its sort of just opening your mouth or pen cap and letting whatever needs to be said out, however trivial or nonsensical.

1. other peoples minds - takes place in france when I didn't really know anyone from city to city and I sort of began losing myself, or changing from other peoples perspective. its also about coming home and finally realizing we ultimately experience life completely alone, and our individuality is based on thousands of perspectives shining together, interlocking constructing some sort of holographic image of a person. but we need it, as we desperately need our friends and loved ones.

2. Wisconsin - is maybe just something really simple i would like to tell a younger version of myself. its kind of gimmicky... loosely constructed as future existing all around us and i'm the ghost, i think. or, its about multiple personalities.

3. Just friends - i hope is obviously about the fear of separation and losing someone you love in a very hot and cold relationship. also, when i was recording this i was pulled over four times in one week, and i was expressing my frustration with that probably as well... kyle and roger are by the porch, and men like wolves are just that... everywhere.

4. Algiers - might be a bit offensive. Its about katrina and when I lived in new orleans. I'm not even sure if i should sing about stuff like this, but its sort of about how the spirit of the city lives on in people..

5. Salute - sort of takes place on ponce, deep ellum, but mostly at this one particular bar with a friend of mine. Its about trying to cheer someone up, and the kinds of people I get along with.

6. Heaven - starts out as a confession and then turns into talking about atheism again somehow... uh, finishes with a drive i took one night with my mom.

7. Leviathan - is about a mythical sea monster

8. City, Speak to Me - I think is about keeping secrets.

9. Hot Ashes - I desperately wanted this to sound like the music you'd hear when you're going insane trying to find someone in their personal hell. Or like transposing every sad memory into your own catharsis. I think it just ended up being kind of mellow and parts of it sounding a lot like a song from the frames.

-thanks to beth for the support and enduring all of the rough tracks. i love you.