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More intimate and minimal, like the final pages of a journal. These tracks read like small but heavy moments. They were written after a hiatus and I was feeling really frustrated with not having made anything for a year or so. This was that. A flood of ideas I've had burning for a long time. Shorter melodic compositions directly from my head to the daw with as little processing as possible.
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This started as the intro for the proceeding track but it just grew into it's own thing that I feel contributed to the wider project enough to warrant its own song. I wanted it to sound like a transmission, a distant signal from a remote place. It's a morse code, telegraph sound but it's not saying anything it's just a string of dots to represent the kind of "stream of consciousness" way in which this album was written; from the deepest recesses of my mind and not necessarily making complete sense.
This isn't really about any physical place in particular. Itās more that feeling when you finally land somewhereāmentally or emotionally. When I wrote this, it felt like Iād made it back to something I didnāt know I had left. I used a lot of things I find nostalgic in this track, clips from kingdom hearts, serial experiments lane, Marilyn manson songs, things to make me feel at home again.
A kind of pseudo sequel to sadness in b major, this track is kind of the antithesis to that. Subtle, understated. I wanted something that said as much but that took itself seriously this time. This track was me trying to figure out what that word meansāwhether I believe in it. As a result it's very raw and stripped back. Punchy, and to the point.
I wanted this to feel like a conversation you didnāt want to end. Itās happy and warm, but thereās distance in it too. This oneās a goodbye, but not an angry oneāmore like a quiet, gentle letting go. I made it to reflect on something that happened to me personally so I don't really want to go into it too much. But I really tried to capture as many different elements as possible, and to marry them into this "swan song", a farewell.
This was made for a collaboration project. A huge mix of 3+ hours of music from various artists and in various styles and genres. I tried to convey what I was about so there's a massive emphasis on melody and atmosphere but I used chopped and gnarled breaks for drum fills. Into dreams is a reference to Nights, obviously. But I used it because the majority of my songs are inspired by dreams and it's like a welcome to that.
A long drift into sleep, or a memory. I guess I didnāt want to end things neatlyājust let everything dissolve, like how dreams slip away when you wake up.
Not much to say really. It's less cohesive than anything I've ever done and there's not really a wider narrative or theme. But these tracks are important to me because they just needed to come out. I'm still really proud of them and my only regret really is that I didn't turn this into a full length project.
