🍓STRAWBERRY🍓
I feel like I'm finally making the music I want to make!
My last solo release (which came out at the end of the Pandemic) was something I spent years endlessly tweaking. So obviously after that project, I overcompensated by just making tons and tons of little musical sketches.
By the time I sat down to write STRAWBERRY I was genuinely afraid that maybe I just didn't know how to make full-length music on my own anymore. Luckily my recurring nightmare of "forgetting how to make music" did not come true, and I spent about 3 weeks in May of 2025 fleshing out all these little half-baked ideas and sound design experiments. I was sitting down for so long everyday that I got sciatica, but luckily I have recovered and you have gotten this album.
I really wish I had some cool concept that frames what this album is exploring, but that's not how I work. I sit down, I open up my computer, and I literally feel like I blackout. I couldn't even really remember what the songs sounded like for a few months. Anyway, I'm a believer that any sort of articulation of "aboutness" would be so much less interesting, nuanced, and thoughtful than what the music is actually doing.
So what exactly is this? There's lots of recordings of the human body and household objects. There's tons of disintegrated pop vocals. There's lot of Ableton stock instrument presets. It feels surprisingly sentimental? Or at least sincere and emotional. Disembodied voices wail, shriek, and cry out on almost every track. If you had asked me a year ago to imagine the album I wanted to make, there's no way this is what I would have thought of.
If you can tell me what it's about, I'd love to hear. Thanks for listening.