'Voices' album and my thoughts on it

At the beginning of my summer I started working on short album and I am happy to say that I have completed 6 songs (about 30min). I uploaded them onto my Soundcloud page a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to them through this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-302537664/sets/voices

The theme revolves around consumerism, nature, what it means to be human, etc. It has a mystic, kind of creepy vibe. Maybe even a Lana Del Rey atmosphere.

My two favourites on it are 'Mermaids' and '4:03'. However they all have their moments. Each one is very special to me. These two are my favourite because I can listen to them for long periods of time and not get bored. That's what I consider a good song, something you come back to over and over again and not be tired of. When you're first introduced to any song you can immediately love it and be obsessed with it but the real test is if it can stand the test of time. I can't tell if a song is good until it stands the test of time.

I apologize for the choppy paragraphs and sentences. There are just so much I want to say about this album. I just don't really know where to start.

I learned a couple of things from putting together this album. 1) what sounds good in your head does not necessarily sound good in real life. 2) Layering music is a lot about balance. 3) It takes a ridiculously long time to put together a song/album, even if it's just acoustic songs. You wouldn't think something like a 2min song will take 10 hours to complete. That mean you listen to the song 300 times! 4) The more time it takes for you to complete the actual writing portion of the song, the more disoriented or untrue the song becomes. It's like broken telephone. The more times you go through, the more you cut down on its edges and curves, until it has no texture. The song looses its originality and becomes a straight line. The texture of the song is what holds the emotions of when that song was written. 5) It's okay to write eerie songs.

I made a music video for the song Mermaids. It's a completion of faces from some of the magazines that I grew up reading like Vogue and Glamour.

I usually associate music I listen to, or songs I write, with the season I'm in. Like you know those songs that come out at the beginning of the school year in fall? Whenever you hear those songs, do the feelings and memories from that time of the year come back to you? For me they do very strongly. I can smell the fall and feel it's air on my skin. The same goes for songwriting as well. When I write a song, I try to capture the seasonality and make it capture the current point of life I'm in. That way whenever I listen to the song, I can relive the moments or time period I went through. I really tried to capture the deep greenery of spring. I tried to capture spring as many mediums as I could. These photos are the closest representation of how I felt while writing these songs: https://h9621217.wixsite.com/fourearths/green-05-18