song 5 of 5 on No Matter What, I Am With You
out now on all streaming platforms!
This album has passionately consumed my life for the past 10 months since it was first conceptualized with “Leash” in August of 2023. It was made during a turbulent time in my life, cataloguing a handful of scuffles and dips that I felt compelled some kind of great expression from me. I had never made an album before, but I felt as though many of these emotions could only be communicated through music. Even during the time that the events that inspired this album were happening, it felt like I had already begun writing it with my poetry. I used my poetry as inspiration for many of the albums motifs, and even directly incorporated it into the lyrics a few times. With all this in mind, the album took shape as an outlet for the shame, confusion, sadness and anger I felt during those times. I treated it as my own personal pandora’s box, cramming and stuffing it full of all the pain and sorrows i wished to forget, only to open it again out of a pervading curiosity and desire to make sense of it all. For a while, it felt as though its concepts and revelations would hang in my mind forever. But as the legend goes, in the dark crevices of my own shame and confusion, I found hope, infectious and irresistible hope. If there is anything i want to be taken away from this album, it is this: we are built by what breaks our skin, and what bleeds is in essence, the rushing hope that heals our wounds.