Music I’ve released
A haunting wind sings from the forest. Pipes hiss as water flows through, hidden in the walls. The floorboards creak as a child plays with a music box.
Sometimes music creates a world that it doesn’t explicitly delineate in its lyrics, but nevertheless instills within you. It creates a kind of spiritual headspace that you can enter in the same way you can walk into a room. And the magic of the art is that every listener gets a different, unique version of that setting. This piece of music, the most recent thing I’ve put out, has (as far as I can tell) elicited more of an evocative visual response from listeners than anything else I’ve made. The second single from the fairy tale project, it is a harbinger of the rest to come.
Cabin Song
Cover art by yours truly
This song was a little over two years in the making. I had the backwards piano opening and some chords for a year before I knew what to do next—then one night in Freiburg, Germany I just decided to go for it. I wrote and wrote and rewrote verses and choruses, and they weren’t working. I remember getting into my bed and listening with my eyes closed and feeling something uncanny about the structure, and got back up and kept following that deeper instinct and trying until… whummmm…it seemed like it was perfect all at once. I made a quick bounce and walked the medieval city streets for three hours with the song on repeat. It’s the greatest musical achievement of my life so far, but it’s not very obvious I think. It’s a pretty quiet song. Until the ending.
waking up
Cover art by Teodelina Martelli
The album that started it all. Long title, I know. It was texted to me by a past-life love the day before she left for college. Tough. Many things to love about this album, not least of all that it makes for a great all-the-way-run-through album listening experience. Give it a try! I’ve moved on from the style of this album, naturally, but it captures something I felt at some point and time. And hey, that’s one of the most wonderful things art can do.
Good morning, my love! tomorrow it’s all over
Cover art by Teodelina Martelli
The first time I got to hang out with my friends since the pandemic had begun, and the result was this absolutely legendary video. So freaking joyous, so freaking nostalgic. What a wonderful group of people. I dragged them out into like 90 degree Alabama heat and they completely rocked it. Thomas, Will, Adam, Charles: You guys are incredible. And this isn’t the last you’ll see of the Boo-Boys!
the “Hello, Time!” music video
Cover art by yours truly. I like to think my photoshop skills are endearing.
“Hello, Time” Music Video by Denson Camp