This is a collection of things I wrote and recorded in my parents’ apartment in Brooklyn between the ages of 15 and 17.

It has some pieces inspired by my early adventures in experimental filmmaking (“Who is Her” and “Gold Became a Useless Cover”), some songs with the kind of surreal, multi-layered social commentary I did a lot of back then (“Bubble”, “August (Collector’s Edition)”, “Motion Dream”), and a couple songs that get pretty deep into the psychiatric abuse and trauma I was experiencing at the time (“Sunburnt” and “Console”).

It all feels very turn-of-that-decade NYC to me in a funny way, with a sense of being trapped on a “landlocked island” with about 8 million other people, which is why I put these tracks together as an album, even though I hadn’t intended for them to be on the same album when I wrote and recorded them.

The album cover is a photo I took in my parents’ apartment in Brooklyn at midnight on January 1st, 2011. It also appears in the Infinity (and other inventions) series.

released December 7, 2015