Over the past year, I worked with my good friend Matt Wyatt of Tree and Booms Studio to bring this record to life. Matt is an extremely talented engineer as well as a multi-instrumentalist and drummer. The resulting collaboration has plenty of acoustic guitar and ethereal vocals, but also a good serving of dirty synth, intricate drumming, slide guitar, hammond organ, and a distorted pedal steel outro on the final track “Swallows” that will always make me swoon. 

The songs themselves grapple with the tensions between wildness and domesticity, independence and inter-dependence, racial and social injustice, the desire to be perfect versus the desire to be seen, and the courage it takes to break out of the stories we have been given; to let a new melody emerge from our skin. 

In that spirit, this project has taught me the importance of letting myself be heard. Thinking of my songs as little gifts to other people, both other musicians as well as listeners, continues to flip my thinking in the right direction. As Yo-Yo ma says, “your audience are your guests. Treat them hospitably.” With that, I am honored to share this record with you. 

You can listen to the record on Spotify, iTunes, and all the other places like it.

You can also order the beautiful vinyl version by following the link below: