"Bad Timing" is a song I started writing somewhere around 2017. I was playing around with chords that were mimicking Dead Sullivan, one of my favorite local bands to come out of Denton, TX. I was having trouble figuring out the arrangement, so I put it on the shelf (so to speak) for a for years, until the pandemic hit. When I was recording it, I was having trouble hitting the high parts in the chorus, so I asked my friend Tiffany Gonzalez to sing on the chorus' with me. Her voice... more

Sativa is a song I recorded in early April of 2020. It was right at the start of the pandemic, I had just released "Emotional Labor" and I was feeling pretty done with the expectations I was putting on myself for how my music should sound. I did the "indie" thing with the songs I wrote in Denton because that's the sound I soaked in while I was there. Moving to Dallas, however, opened up a lot of new sounds for me.At the time, I didn't know too many people in... more

I wrote "Halo" in December of 2019. At the time, I had a bad habit of staying up late, or sometimes, for days at a time. I would go out to bars, meet up with friends, talk until the bar closed, invite people over to my apartment, and keep the conversation going until it was time to either pass out or find somewhere else to drink. This song came out of one of those late night conversations with someone I was close to at the time. We were talking about what we wanted to do with our... more