Well, it's been a very long time since I posted here, and even longer since anything actually new happened around the ol' harbor. The last few years have been interesting. I haven't released new music since 2016, which feels like a lifetime. In some ways, it has been. Lots has happened in my life since Summer Rain released, some good, some bad. Some challenging, some thrilling. Music is always a key part of my life, but I found myself really struggling to write anything cohesive. I'd have little spurts of inspiration or little ideas that just couldn't manifest into anything worth releasing, to the quality that I adhere myself to nowadays. I wanted my next release to be something I'm extremely proud of.
If you listen to my music, you know that Summer Rain as an entire album was a lot of wrestling with heartbreak, existential questions, and survival. Many of the challenges I faced while writing that album haven't really gone away, but maybe have shown themselves in new ways, or sometimes old ones. My art is typically born out of those feelings, thoughts, and questions, and what I've been making lately is no different.
I'm in the process of finishing up a new song I'm really excited about. It's a song that deals with the pain of losing someone and struggling to let go.
It's a song about looking back on the time with someone and holding those memories close for as long as possible.
It's a song about hopelessness, because sometimes that's a genuine feeling that everyone feels at some point in their life.
To some, it might feel very edgy, dark, depressing. In many ways that's true, but none of those things are strange feelings to anyone that has lived lives long enough to go through anything challenging. My hope is to always be honest and open in my music, even when the feelings come out.
The song is titled "Haunted" and it will officially release on all streaming platforms on May 22nd. You can hear a short clip of an early demo at the video below.