LP4 / “womb”
Yesterday I announced my 4th album. It will be called INFINITE NORMAL.
The first single is the opening track, “womb”. It’s live on Bandcamp now.
This is a deeply personal song for me. I wrote it originally in 2016 during a period where I was engaged and the 2016 election news cycle was happening, a reflection of wanting to curl up and hide from everything only to realize the importance of not doing that alone. It feels timely once again.
It’s out now exclusively on Bandcamp, along with a b-side, “come alive”, which will not be on the album. It’ll also be out on YouTube and a few other select streaming services next Friday, August 8. (This part is an experiment.)
Here is the cover art for INFINITE NORMAL:
Some backstory on the cover art: A big theme of LP4 is performance, the increasingly performative nature of modern life & the often performative things we do to feel normal.
The photo is from the most recent Buffer team retreat, specifically a karaoke night in which I performed Toto’s seminal hit “Africa” in front of my coworkers. I don’t typically like karaoke, but it was a really fun experience that got me out of my shell in front of many people who I’ve become quite close with over time.
Something about this photo, with the angle and lighting the way it was, felt like it captured the darkness & anxiety behind the surface-level joy that I get from performing, and perhaps a larger statement for how we all feel when we perform in public & online. It can be somehow fun and harrowing, revealing and opaque, vital and trivial all at the same time.
More to come on LP4 in the coming weeks.
