Generational Drift

It has been exactly one year since the release of my EP ‘Generational Drift’. At that time, I talked about the struggles I had in recording, finding motivation and direction. So for the music to coalesce into an album that feels more complete, more alive, than some of my long players, is something I still feel grateful for.

The opening track, “Original Place” was recorded during the sessions that became my album ‘Hosts of Living Forms’. It was noisy and a bit brash, startling, even. In the context of that album it didn’t fit, but it works marvelously as an opening track here. The song functions as a kind of mission statement. Things are not quite right. Can amends be made?

The trio of tracks that follow were all created together as part of what I intended to be my next album. They share a lot of DNA with ‘Heat Shade’, but while I was making them it became increasingly clear to me that they needed to live somewhere else, and that I needed some distance before diving in properly on work for a follow-up record.

The final song, “The Mercy Promised to Our Fathers”, was an older track I put together right after completing work on ‘Hosts’. Recorded during a transitional time when I was unsure of my next move, it lacked any narrative thread connecting it to future work, so I sort of forgot about it. I am so thankful that I did, because it resurfaced at just the right time and found its proper home among these other songs.

The album continues to capture my imagination in a way I couldn’t have anticipated when it initially took shape. Artists are rarely the best judge of their own material, but I think it is some of my best work. Certainly, it was one of the most artistically fulfilling projects of which I have been a part.