Space Travel is one of the early home-recorded albums that I made as a teenager, in my parents’ apartment in Brooklyn, NYC. It was originally released as a limited edition CD in 2010, and I had completely forgotten about it until 2024, when my friend Kléo and I were working on an intensive, months-long project to do with my earlier work and I discovered the CD in the archives my parents had been kindly storing in their home.

As with Wooden Room, which was recorded in the same year, a lot of the songs on Space Travel are about the absurdity and alienation of being a teenager in NYC in the early 21st century, and they carry a lot of melancholy and misery while ultimately bending towards something hopeful. Unlike the songs on Wooden Room, though, these have more of an experimental rock and roll vibe, and you can probably tell I had a lot of fun with my electric guitar throughout.

I think “Fur Coat” is my favorite song on the album, but most people who’ve heard it told me they like “The Man in the Vampire Suit” more. I got a lot of requests to play that one in the early 2010s, and I think there was even an acoustic recording of it in the now out of print 2nd episode of Cannonball’s Party that my friend and I made in 2010, where I gave an impromptu performance in a souvenir shop near Times Square.

A few of the songs on this album were also later rearranged and revamped for later albums, including the almost unrecognizable versions of “Snow Globe” and “Stranger Dreams” (also known as “Beautiful, Terrifying”) that are on 2019’s Rhinoceros Crossing.

released October 5, 2025

All music and lyrics written, performed, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Jesse “Cannonball” Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, NY, 2010.

Album cover photography and artwork design and layout by Jesse “Cannonball” Statman.