In March, I gave myself a hard deadline of May 1st to get the new album complete. Today, I am happy to report that by implementing a hard deadline for the album it helped me to finally cross the finish line.

I started writing this in October 2022 shortly after the release of Lacrimorta’s self-titled debut. This album took 30 months or 2 and a half years to complete, which is to say, a long time. So much has changed since that time in my life. Since then I have left a snake cult, left the mainland, left my job, left my apartment, sold off my vehicle, and took the plunge. I pointed somewhere on the map that was attainable, got myself, my yorkie, and two cats on a plane and uprooted myself from everything I have previously known. This album perfectly encapsulates the energy of leaving while also being a fan project of the highest order.

For a variety of reasons, this album has been the most difficult piece of Art I have ever completed. This album is very operatic and lyrical. And let me tell you, writing a goddamn opera isn’t something that can happen overnight. Vocals are always problematic, and for this album I wanted to do something different. I think that I have achieved that on multiple levels, and although it doesn’t match my original vision I believe it surpasses what I thought this album could be, would be. It serves as a clear step up from what I have done previously and I believe it will connect with whoever it was meant to connect with.

In my opinion producing wholly instrumental music is a simple matter. It takes guts to add live instruments and live vocals to our music in the time of “perfect” AI artwork and music. Last summer, I spent a good deal of time investigating those avenues, and EVERY SINGLE TIME AI fell short for me on multiple levels. I am not threatened by AI. I believe, and several of my fellow Artists (with a capital ‘A’) believe is that what we humans produce is an artisanal delight that absolutely can’t be packaged up and shipped in a month sent off to die and be consumed, thrown away, and forgotten. Why would you willingly want to consume McDonald’s when you can eat something…fancier?

What I do takes, so much emotional energy, so much time, so much sacrifice. Bringing a completed work into being means sending my darlings out to die, but it also serves as a time capsule from the period of time that work was created in. This is what makes this album and all the other albums I have written so special. Get on if you wanna hear some cool ass tunes, or be left behind. I don’t care.

So yeah, it’s coming. It’s finally coming. And I am proud of it. It isn’t perfect. But it doesn’t have to be. Because Goddess knows, I am far from perfect.

I hope you are ready for some bone marrow soup.