NEW EP! Please welcome 'endlings' to the world.

Album art by the incomparable Bradley Peterson, @bpetersonillustration on the gram.

Hooboy. Been waiting and waiting for this day and finally I can share this new thing I made with some truly special people. Might be my favorite thing I’ve ever done? Five songs chock full of sadness and love and all the feelings I can’t help but process through music because I am a large adult baby.

The EP is called ‘endlings’ because these songs were written during a period when I was really reflecting on my life in music and how long it has now lasted. Many of my friends and fellow songwriters who I went to school with and started out playing shows with in sad bars long ago have for the most part (one could argue wisely) moved on and grown up and are doing useful things like being chefs and nurses and teachers. An ‘endling’ is a creature who is the last of its kind, whose death will mean extinction for its species. It’s not entirely apt though, because arranging and performing these songs with my bandmates (Jonathan Gray and Hannah Seng) has been one of the most creatively inspiring projects I’ve ever been a part of. They reaffirmed my belief in the power of music to speak to emotion in a way no other language or art form can. So while I have stubbornly outlasted a few peers, I also feel like I just washed up on the shore of a new world, a whole novel’s worth of story unfolding with each step inland. I’ve never made a record like this, a small and intimate and unvarnished family of songs that couldn’t just sit and wait to be included in a larger release.

It was mixed by Josh Kaler (who also threw in some clutch pedal steel and baritone ukulele) and mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B. Badass illustrator Bradley Peterson drew the cover. You can hear ‘Damage’, helpfully premiered by my friends at Under The Radar, by clicking this link right here. Then you can be a real chum and presave it on Spotify right here (or, if you’re a staunch traditionalist, you can pre-order the digital release here on bandcamp). ‘Damage’ will be on the streamings as of this Weds Jan 19 and the full EP releases Feb 4.

I should also say that this release wouldn’t be happening without all the love and support from folks who bought Survive With Me, bought shirts, came to shows, watched live streams and dropped a few bitcoins in the mef Venmo/Paypal tip jar. That’s how I paid for this brazen act of self-indulgence and how I stayed positive through the darker parts of the last few years. I am so, so grateful. Hope this new music finds a cozy spot in your lap and helps you stare meaningfully out the window. That’s what it’s all about.