A New Challenger Approaches!

Can’t stop won’t stop? Gosh, looks that way. I wrote all these songs in 2019 but as fate would have it my decided lack of chill resonates even more strongly here in 2020, the year the fire finally burned the ‘This is fine’ dog in his chair. And since making an album (for me) is very much a ‘steer into the skid’ kind of exercise in sustained stubbornness, I couldn’t stop making it even when the world flipped over and I probably should have put music aside to focus on my scavenging. But no. I barreled through like a true champion. Here are some things that inspired/affected this record as it was being imagined: getting a dog, moving to a small mountain town, existential angst, Stranger Things, mortality, bears, the passage of time, Carrie Underwood, Satan, the marital discord of others, sitcom tropes, global warming, and so on and so forth. I love it like I would a baby manatee. I’m so glad I was dumb enough to try and make it.

‘Survive With Me’ releases October 13 and as of today you can preorder the digital and/or vinyl version at my bandcamp page. This will let you download the first single ‘Easy To Love’ BUT THAT’S NOT ALL, I’ll also email you the demo for ‘Anything But’, a song I wrote with this batch but ended up leaving off of the record proper. This is not on any of the streaming services and can only be found on this version of the record. You can also find ‘Easy To Love’ on Spotify, or Apple Music if you’re a stubborn contrarianist, or Tidal if you’re one of those people who thinks they can hear a difference in the sound quality of streaming audio.

I’ll go into more detail in future posts about the winding road it took from imagination to reality and all the special people who pitched in to help me drag it into the light. Really proud, really excited for you to hear it all, really grateful to still feel compelled to throw new songs into the gaping maw of the internet. It’s just a little noise and I wish I had a better way to try and make the world a little more beautiful but this is the best I’ve got and I hope you listen.