Character Arc: Track 1
I wrote a 6 song EP. I write lots of songs, really. But the songs in this project actually span several years of my life, and were not originally related. I only saw how they reflect the very raw emotions I felt through those years, and how I had markedly grown as a person, in retrospect. On the album cover, I hoped to illustrate this by using two photos of myself spaced roughly 4 years apart. At the start of this period, I had just gone through a messy breakup, and was freshly addicted to cigarettes. While I didn't realize what a problem it was becoming, I also had begun heavily drinking. I began dabbling in doing party drugs, with friends. Equally impactful to my development at that time, I started going to open mic nights to play music. I had been writing songs for some time, but had never shared them. After a few shaky nights, I learned how to throw off the terror that comes from being on a stage bearing my vulnerabilities to strangers in the form of a song.
