I worked on this group of songs off and on for a number of years. They came to mean a great deal to me. It was important for me to release them, but I couldn’t ever be satisfied with them. I tweaked knobs endlessly in an effort to massage them into place. I listened to them countless times as if I could make them sound satisfying by wish or sheer will. The issue was less with the songs than it was with my relationship with creativity. The best way to make progress is to keep moving and fall in love with the process, not the product that exists in your mind or its imagined reception. There comes a point when you’ve gotta let things go. They are what they are. If you want to listen, please do. I could write a more detailed description of each song, as I have done with some of these in the past, but the lyrics are there on SoundCloud. I’m lucky to have other ideas to work on. I’d rather invest my time there.
– Ian