Home Alone is the first track in the Wisconsin Hells story. Building the world of going off to college to and having all expectations turn to misfortune. 

The original demo of this was posted at the beginning of the year and it's amazing how much has changed about this song. So much has been added to to make the final version that really impresses me with what I can do with a song. I first came up with this song in November 2014 and that's probably when my music writing really came alive.

Photography by Tom Feltenberger 
http://www.thruphotography.com/

Home Alone

Chicago, WI is the sultry telling of a assimilating to life in a harsh place. 

The term Chicago, WI comes from a glitch in facebook where the location of posts made from where I go to school are categorized as being made from "Chicago, WI". I thought this was a pretty fitting term to describe the kind of people who lived there. A lot of people are from the Chicago area and treat it as such while also making it very clear that we are still in America's Dairyland.

I found this chord progression for this song around the same time as "Home Alone" and originally wanted it to be a fast upbeat song reminiscent of sock hop music but felt the slower version was even greater. It wasn't until May 2015 that I thought of the chorus and it was the first time I had put together a vocal melody with my own lyrics that's probably why its the song with the strongest hook emphasis. 

Photography by Tom Feltenberger 
www.thruphotography.com/

Chicago, WI

Lud Bite shows malaise in the friendships built solely on the party lifestyle and how short lived and unfulfilling those friendships really are. 

I've had this chord progression in my mind for probably the longest of any of the WI Hells songs. I used to just play it as a way to mess around with loud and soft guitar playing. One of my key philosophies to making a great loud song is to have it be equally soft, hell isn't that why Nirvana is so widely loved? A  lot of the time I feel like this is my favorite song I've written. It holds so much power in both the lyrics and instrumentation that I was going for with these songs.

Photography by Tom Feltenberger 
www.thruphotography.com/

Lud Bite

Beach Sloth takes a whimsical turn to stating to the joys of turning down that lakefront view for a world hiding away filled with fear and anxiety.

I wrote and recorded the original Beach Sloth in probably 3 hours around the time I posted the original. I used to always hear how artists would write songs I thought were amazing in a half hour and was always in disbelief. "How could you have taken less time to write a song than the amount of times I've listened to it" But now I get it, some times things just come to you in an immediate manner. I guess I could say that about all of these songs. Most of them weren't fully finished until I started to record them and I recorded all of WI Hells in less than a month.

Photography by Tom Feltenberger 
www.thruphotography.com/

Beach Sloth

Higher Education is about the psychoactive experiences one takes when faced with no escape from an unforgiving place.

Originally I wanted to have the sound of waves of Lake Michigan running through the entirety of the track but the only recordings I found were heavily distorted with the wind and I couldn't bring myself to ruining this summer with a premature return to this place. I settled for an audio recording that I found humorous and surprisingly fitting for the song.

Photography by Tom Feltenberger 
www.thruphotography.com/

Higher Education

Home Alone 2 is a long exhale and triumphant return not only home but to a state of mind that finally feels content.

A month or two ago I though "wouldn't it be great to have some sort of two-parter that also book ended the record?" I don't know how successful I was but I knew I had to make something that wasn't in 6/8 and gave at least a little hope to the person who I play in these stories. 

Photography by Tom Feltenberger 
www.thruphotography.com/

Home Alone 2:  Lost In New Life

Cover photo by Tom Feltenberger
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I recorded this last november and so far it is the only thing fully recorded since I put out Wisconsin Hells. I needed something new to accompany my name change announcement. I listened to this song a lot the fall semester of this last year and thought how iconic it was to my situation. I'm finally free of a lot of evils that filled my life the last year and a half so heres to a new beginning. I'm not sure yet if I'll include this song in a future release.

Be True To Your School (Beach Boys Cover)

Uninspired Vaporwave Edit of Madonna's Material Girl

The first track from my next project Drip School Dropout which aside from this song really doesn't exist yet. There are a few things partially recorded but nothing is as completed as this. This was recorded between November 2015 and February 2016. There is so much chorus in this song especially since there hasn't been any chorus in any of my songs until now.

For now this track is a part of Gaywitch Records Spring 2016 Compilation check it out for a download and physical copies.

Palmtree, IL

This song has been in the works for the last year. This is the sequel to Lud Bite from Wisconsin Hells. This is another story of my time in Wisconsin especially my experience there last fall. I feel like I'm in another world compared to where I was last fall and I'm so happy for it.

This song is the first official recording from my next project there will be a few more songs detailing my time there but for the most part are expanding beyond the subject matter of Wisconsin Hells. This is the first song I have recorded with Tom Feltenberger of Creative Space Cadet on production and percussion.

This song part of Gaywitch Record's Halloween compilation. Check it out to download.

Artwork by Brian Twait

Cruel Spirit