premonition was released on this day in 2022 as my fourth ep of the year & 46th overall. a few months earlier i had sold all of my furniture & moved into rae’s house after ten years at my old place. i reached a point where i was ready to leave a lot of things behind or at least start something new & these songs are certainly of that spirit.
i wrote “gone” while driving 20 hours from tacoma to montana to salt lake city. the 360 degrees of big sky & empty stretches between tiny towns were as mind-numbing as they were beautiful. my friend & collaborator Synesthete remixed “gone” & it’s still my most popular track to date. not that i am popular but it’s all relative. “tout désir devient concret” came to me in a dream, nearly fully intact, following a trip to new orleans. i woke up & recorded it pretty much as it is here. “everything is borrowed in the end” was composed on michelle’s piano in richmond & you can hear some of that voice note in the intro. i wore that summer like a cloak. mcmurray played banjo on “keep the wolves at bay” & it’s one of my favorite songs.
the cover photo was taken during a pre-dawn run at the navy yard. it was a thick, humid morning & i was whining about how unbearable the sun would be when it came out. however, when it rose it stayed behind a perfectly placed cloud. we create our own problems sometimes.
this is one of probably six eps that i would consider among the best. 9/10.
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