Name: Mirage by Daniel Sumstine
Duration: 2 min 59 s
Description: “Mirage” is a high-energy pop-punk track that blends the urgency of Taking Back Sunday and The Starting Line with a wave of nostalgia for a hometown that feels both familiar and out of reach. Written after revisiting old VHS home videos, the song captures that hazy mix of memory, identity, and the person you’ve grown into.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3D8u1Md2n1yarjpwcPWLxB?si=04d5e1519b714a09

Written and produced by Daniel Sumstine
Additional production and mixing by Cole Andre
Guitar by Jordan Merrigan

Coffee Cup

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6n8msMo5s7Aj0HH97GUQDg?si=b3939129e566406d

Written and produced by Daniel Sumstine
Additional production and mixing by Cole Andre
Guitar by Jordan Merrigan
Drums by Jacob Schrodt & Jared Fox

Help Me Out

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3NM5Rrq2uxKxJ3wMY8dfXh?si=e2ea11eeedc54c77

Written and produced by Daniel Sumstine
Additional production and mixing by Cole Andre
Guitar by Jordan Merrigan
Drums by Jacob Schrodt & Jared Fox

Wherever You Are

QUIT THE INTERNET

Written by Daniel Sumstine
Produced and mixed by Thomas Dulin
Electric guitar by Jordan Merrigan
Drums by Jacob Schrodt
Bass by Christian Harger 
Mastered by Joe Causey

QUIT THE INTERNET

“Mirage” is a high-energy pop-punk track that blends the urgency of Taking Back Sunday and The Starting Line with a wave of nostalgia for a hometown that feels both familiar and out of reach. Written after revisiting old VHS home videos, the song captures that hazy mix of memory, identity, and the person you’ve grown into.

Mirage

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3UOnGPgpeapE9aFcZeYAxl?si=d697144433eb436c

Written by Daniel Sumstine
Produced and mixed by Cole Andre
Guitar by Jordan Merrigan
Mastered by Michael Walker

Lyrics:
With the seasons winding down
We were going through the wreckage of our youth
There was a small and subtle sound
That I followed in hopes that I'd find truth

But home never really felt much like home
I want to feel it in my bones
I hope it's somewhere out there, somewhere out there
And God, does he ever reveal the plot?
Has he given this place much thought?
I hope he's somewhere out there, somewhere out there now

There were roses painted red 
So we pulled them down and used them for their thorns
Then placed a crown upon your head
And you felt it from the moment you were born

Somewhere Out There

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0p1mMYrEnDIqMyDR69Gj64?si=261b54a5d2e6427c

Written by Daniel Sumstine
Production/Mixing by Cole Andre and Daniel Sumstine
Mastered by Michael Walker
Guitar by Jordan Merrigan
Design by Rachel Knobloch

Lyrics:
Me and my brain are permanently wired
So I guess I'll stay in something that expires

We are human
We are skin and bone, stone and irony
We are beaten down, falling on our knees
Begging please, why do I exist?

Down at the lake
I saw something in the water
And it was the face 
Of something uninspired

Human

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3QzWGFBNpVzUVuXZ2vHLeA?si=b3fca63e41dd4500

Visualizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJgoyZ7rdE

Anthropocene

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6iq0bQEdqag2EbT8WoDBgU?si=4370202426c648a4

Written and produced by Daniel Sumstine
Mixed and mastered by Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount
Guitar by Jordan Merrigan

Mirage

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