I’m proud and grateful to announce the upcoming release of my solo album Recurring Dream. You can pre-order it via Bandcamp, and you can hear the first single, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” via all streaming platforms.

While my previously released limited cassettes featured formal composition (Some, Soap Library, 2016) and free improvisation (Completely Phantom, Baked Tapes, 2018), Recurring Dream is a pop record with various non-pop genes spliced into its arrangements: minimalism, funk, math rock, post-punk, prog. It’s also the most accessible and personal music I’ve ever made.

Recurring Dream was a way for me to use my experience as a multi-instrumentalist to create something that was totally of my own creative hand. On these ten songs, I played the majority of the instruments (totaling over a dozen different string, reed, and keyboard parts), and stepped up to the mic to sing lyrics that are entirely both personal and political. The lyrics explore themes that paint a truthful image of life in the United States at the end of the 2010s: fear and paranoia; capitalism and fascism; memory and the self; suicidal ideation and sexual identity.

On Recurring Dream, I was aided on the majority of the material by Nick Podgurski (Feast of the Epiphany, GRID, Extra Life) on drum kit and Cory Bracken (American Football, Real Adult) on vibraphone and percussion. Where an additional voice was warranted, or in the instance that an instrument outside my wheelhouse was called for, I drew from a rich pool of talented friends, including Amirtha Kidambi (Elder Ones), Fatherdude (Brasstracks), Max Katz (USA is a Monster), Jordan McLean (Antibalas), and others. The drums were tracked by Matt Walsh, and overdubs were heavily aided by Jon Erickson; the album was mixed by Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Liars, Cloud Becomes Your Hand) and mastered by Joel Hatstat (Bomb the Music Industry!, Maserati, Bambara).

Recurring Dream will be available digitally via Strategy of Tension on January 7th 2022, with LPs soon to follow. I cannot wait for you to hear it.