Headcase

Boneheaded

Ziptied

Like Falling

Good Things

It's a Feeling

An Endless Dream Of You

Who Am I  To You?

Fool Around

Breeze In

Belong

Missing

DIVE EP

Lean Close

Loveblind

Bend

Magic

Fruit

For You - Low Life

I Feel It

Panama City

Fix Me Up

Collect

Over This

Here is a song I started on Tuesday while self isolating after coming back from overseas. I haven’t been tested and I’m feeling pretty normal, but don’t wanna be that asymptomatic jerk who gets everyone else sick, so I’m not taking any chances. I’m 11 days in with 3 more to go, but like a lot of you I’ll be keeping the isolation going a while longer, at least until we can get a better handle on everything here in Aotearoa.

To be totally honest, I wrote this song for me more than anyone else, mostly as a way of reassuring myself that I’d be okay, since I’ve been kinda panicking after arriving home and needed some way to shake off the worry I have for my own health and for the people I love most.

In all likelihood, I will be okay - I don’t fall into any of the ‘high risk’ categories. However, I have a number of loved ones who do - either because of their age, or because they have health conditions or compromised immune systems, all of which predispose them to being more vulnerable to the extremes of the coronavirus.

I’m so happy to see pretty much everyone I follow on IG already staying home and going deep on social distancing. This is how we protect each other and save lives - our global community has already lost too many and we need to do everything in our power to prevent further loss of life, as best we can.

I’m not trying to minimize how serious this situation is, but since there’s nothing else I’m capable of doing in life other than make music and draw shitty looking self portraits, I figured I’d release this one, cause I think most of us are feeling a lot of the same feelings right now. I remain hopeful for myself and for everyone one else and that’s all I’m really trying to express here.

Love you all, stay safe and let’s live separately, together.

See you on the internet ❤️

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