Gus and I started this tune on a late and aimless night messing around with sounds, but mostly just eating snacks and chatting about the bigger picture. A couple days later, I had almost a whole song in my head.

This past year in my life has been a lesson in the pace of change—I’ve felt both as high and as low, and as big and as small as I ever have. It took a while for me to figure how to say it all, but I think I’ve started to catch the sound, and I’m really excited to be able to start sharing new music again.

This one goes out to all the people who have loved me through changes. Thanks for sticking around 🦉

- OP

2022 has felt like a recalibration of sorts, and I’ve learned a lot of lessons this past year. Being able to step back and appreciate the constants in my life has allowed me to stay grounded as time unrelentingly continues to move forward. “Thanks for Sticking Around” is an ode to all of those who have continued to support me in my endeavours, both personal and creative.

- BW

Thanks for Sticking Around (2022)
Vocals: On Planets
Production: On Planets / Blue Wednesday

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Lyrics
I must confess, my mind is made
of tiny leaden fishing weights
I throw them down these
lonely tinseled hallways
like rolling bones
does it ever feel like home?
does it matter much at all?

in the face of an almost certain end
you called my name
you took my hand
you stayed and all I said was thanks
thanks for sticking around
thanks for sticking around
thanks for sticking around
it’s never been that easy
not getting easier now

my mother says I’m almost faded out
I think she’s right but
how the hell could I admit that now
I tried
and I’m dragging you along
does it ever feel like home?
does it matter much at all?

in the face of an almost certain end
you called my name
you took my hand
you stayed and all I said was thanks,
thanks for sticking around
thanks for sticking around
thanks for sticking around
it’s never been that easy
not getting easier now

does it feel like home?
does it even matter much at all?

Thanks for Sticking Around

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On Planets x Blue Wednesday - Thanks For Sticking Around

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Music sometimes comes easily to me, and sometimes it’s very difficult to extract—more and more, I’ve come to understand that there is indeed a “way” (perhaps many different ways), but rarely a paved path ending at the destination.

This one was one of the easy times. Writing this song reminded me of the way it all started: short trips where the route forward is obvious, my only job to be sure-footed in and deliver whatever it is I have to deliver. It is a great relief to experience these kinds of day-trips in between more arduous ones fettered with baggage and crossroads and distractions.

The song itself is about dying. I hope it gives you the same comfort and clarity as it gave me.

“The beach at the base of the hill,” my first release in over a year, is out now 🦉

-OP

The beach at the base of the hill (2024)
Vocals: On Planets
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LYRICS
there, a moment goes by
I’ve been distracting myself and
it’s getting the best of my time
but once in a while
we come out to scatter some ash
on the beach at the base of the hill
we stood there like 2-litre bottles
not saying much
or breaking down anytime soon
that wasn’t my mother
but what do you do?

what do you do?

smile,
pick up the phone
wrap little loops in the cable
and scratch at the itches you know
it’s more than enough
just living and keeping up,
to follow along
and stand there like 2-litre bottles
not saying much
or breaking down anytime soon
that wasn’t my mother
but what do you do?

you do

like I’m not going anywhere soon
like I’m not going anywhere soon
like I’m not going anywhere soon
like I’m not going soon

The beach at the base of the hill

On Planets - The beach at the base of the hill

Stream / Download: https://onplanets.lsnto.me/sabotage

There is a quote that I swear I read somewhere; I thought it was maybe in a Dostoevsky novel, but I have never been able to track it down. Maybe I just made it up. It’s something along the lines of: “everyone, from time to time, secretly yearns for their own undoing”. It feels good to get in your own way a little bit sometimes—a twisted sort of relief from the pressure of always getting it right.

I guess if I did make the line up and no one has ever said it before, you can just quote me on it now.

-OP

SABOTAGE! (2024)
Vocals: On Planets
Production: On Planets

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LYRICS
isn’t it a long life?
tell you all about it like it’s all I want
another long night
dreaming up my beautiful downfall

circles, folded arms 
I thought you wanted nothing more than love
the certain sort of trouble I start
solar farm on a hillside heart
sure it’s nothing short of sabotage
high time I let it drop
not now, not farther than I thought

isn’t it a long life?
tell you all about it like it’s all I want
another long night
dreaming up my beautiful downfall
it’s high time I let it drop
it’s high time I let it fall far
can’t lie, I like a little bad blood
a little bit of sabotage
so cry sabotage

chalk it up a change of pace
the falling face, the fade away
I thought you wanted nothing but the same
short sight loud
weathervane strange
spinning to the same damn shade of grey
I’m told that I’ve been falling out of phase
phasing out, now

isn’t it a long life?
tell you all about it like it’s all I want
another long night
dreaming up my beautiful downfall
it’s high time I let it drop
it’s high time I let it fall far
can’t lie, I like a little bad blood
a little bit of sabotage
so cry sabotage

it’s high time, love

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Huge shout to Gallant for such an inspiring original. Keep your chins up everybody :)

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A peek through Justin’s eyes through Skrillex’s eyes through Diplo’s eyes through Emily’s eyes through Scott’s eyes through my eyes.

Cover: Emily Warren and Scott Harris - https://soundcloud.com/emilywarrennnn/whereareunow

Original: Jack Ü ft. Justin Bieber - https://soundcloud.com/jacku/skrillex-and-diplo-present-1 

Art: Eric Wilkinson - http://cargocollective.com/ericdwilkinson 

Where Are Ü Now [Jack Ü Cover] (On Planets Remix)

❤ on Hypem: http://bit.ly/OP-OMG

Winter can be gloomy, but don’t forget to smile sometimes. Cheers to MXMS for the beautiful original :)

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Hey, now... Happy New Year :-) ;-) <|:-) Cheers to Pegboard Nerds for the dope original :-) ;-) <|:-)

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Pegboard Nerds - Emoji (On Planets Remix)

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A Vancouver interpretation of a Toronto song. Shouts to Emily and Champagnepapi :)

Cover by Emily Warren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxIUk_NbDk

Original by Drake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimoNqiulUE

Art: Eric Wilkinson - http://cargocollective.com/ericdwilkinson

Headlines [Drake Cover] (On Planets Remix)

Shouts to Maddie on vocals <3 Shouts to Majestic Casual for the support <3 Shouts to Mike Dorner for the artwork <3 Shouts to you listening <3

I'm back. Stay tuned.

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On Planets - Spectacle

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The debut track from my forthcoming EP - Personal Space - on Majestic Casual Records.  

"Cure is kind of about a lot of things, but mainly about feeling conflicted and polarized/caught in between opposing sides.  The song is about trying to find the convoluted and limp middle ground when each polar extreme is so straightforward and simple."

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Personal Space

On Planets - Cure

Give it a listen and ♥ on Hype Machine: http://hypem.com/track/2m9jp/On+Planets+-+Too+Bad+%2F+So+Sad

Proud to release the second single from my debut EP - Personal Space - which is dropping next month on @MajesticCasual Records!

Stream / Download: https://onplanets.lnk.to/TBSS

“This one is a bit of a hyperbolic depiction of doubt, mostly in the context of lifestyle, career, etc. At the time I was writing the track, I had some doubt in my own integrity and worth, so I wanted to embody that melodramatic, ridiculous shit I came up with in my head. ‘Too Bad / So Sad’ is just about how easy it is to marinate yourself in bad vibes.”

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On Planets - Too Bad / So Sad

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“‘Chapter’ started off as an instrumental that I wrote while feeling sort of at the page break, the blank space between when one chapter has ended and the next has yet to begin. I pitched the beat to Luca straight, no back-story, and he came back with a vocal idea; I couldn’t totally understand the words in the clip he sent, but loved it anyways. Later when we went over what the song was going to be about and what direction we were going to take it, he told me that the lyrics were about feeling pushed away by Vancouver, and how bittersweet and confusing it is. Somehow we both wrote the song about the same topic, so for me this one is pretty much the icing on the cake of the album.“

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On Planets - Chapter ft. Luca Fogale

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"First Tour’ is a three part song about the transition from finishing school and living in an apartment on Commercial Drive, to breaking up, moving way out of the city to an outlying municipality, and starting my career. This is my favorite song of the four; I think it’s the most poignant and emotional for me, and best represents the musical style that I’m going forward with."

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On Planets - First Tour

New song for you. It's free. Hope you dig it. Original by Bon Iver.

"A friend and I once chatted about this song and it made realize how vague and cryptic the lyrics are at face value, while somehow being resonant and evocative at some deeper level. It's such a beautiful song that it almost transcends meaning; it is open to interpretation, but arguably better without it as just a wash of vowels and consonants. This song is one of my favourites to play late at night on the deck or at a campfire. I love the tranquility of the original version, but the way it comes out whenever I try to sing it is always kind of bold and raw. I felt that such an open-ended song deserved another version, so here it is, a little gutsier."

- OP

🔊 on Spotify

Bon Iver - Flume (On Planets Cover)

The new single from Chris James & On Planets - Out Now on Majestic Casual Records.

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"When writing " Fallen ", I wanted to talk about what its like when you fall for someone & forget everything else. The song is a story about the haze of infatuation."

- CJ

"Fallen started out as this beat that I had gotten stuck on — it was written around a guitar duet and reached this point where it sounded good, but somehow kind of lonely and missing a piece. I didn’t really know how to approach the vocals and it was starting to collect dust in my unfinished folder when I got the opportunity to link up with Chris and floated it his way, just to see what would happen. He totally knew exactly what the song was meant to say and said it—the end product is dreamy and lonely as when it started. It was a real honour to work with Chris on this one; I think he was able to capture something that I felt, but couldn’t really explain properly. I connect it with lying on my back underneath the stars, but it actually happens a lot in life and in love—the paradoxical feeling of falling through space, at the same time as lying at the pit of some sort of vastness (the words fallen/falling are kind of ambiguous in the song to this effect)." 

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Chris James & On Planets - Fallen

Dreamy new single from me & Hanz out now on Lowly Palace!

Stream / Download 'Holiday (Off The Edge)': https://fanlink.to/holidayofftheedge

"When I was in the early stages of making this track it was originally just the chord progression with drums. I put it up on my dump account and kind of forgot about it until On Planets contacted me and asked to collab. We decided to make it into something much bigger than my original plan and we really meshed together to make one of my personal favorite tracks I've ever been a part of." - HANZ

"I wrote the lyrics for this song because of a conversation I had with an older friend who experienced some very unexpected and undeserving hardship at a point in his life that most people hope to be able to relax and start winding down. When I am out in the mountains, spitting over the edge of a sheer drop gives some perspective of just how close I am—one step—from complete obliteration. The song is sort of a sober and pragmatic take on the emotionalized and connotative idea of “giving up”. While I tried in many iterations to write an instrumental that reflected that, one day while cruising through Hanz’s sketches/unreleased there was a beat that struck me right away. The straightforward elegance that he captures in his production is perfect, and from that baseline, the song basically finished itself in a matter of days." - OP

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Holiday (Off THe Edge)

On Planets & Hanz - Holiday (Off The Edge)

It's been a little while, but I'm back with a slow burner that encapsulates a very Canadian (I'm from Vancouver), but relatable, combination of civility and resentment that develops when we let our hidden anger towards others silently smolder.

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Early in 2019 on vacation in Hawaii, my dad and I were chatting over morning coffee about what each of us had been working on — he freshly retired from teaching creative writing, and I recently returned to the On Planets project after about a year in hiatus. I mentioned casually that if he wrote any poems that could be translated into a song, we might try and put a track together. A couple months later he followed up with a piece called Sticks, which really resonated with me, and I immediately knew how the song should sound. After a few iterations, working out some details together and adding a refrain, I felt the track adequately captured the smoldering feeling of the poem.

This all was a stark contrast to my own songwriting process, which is an extremely gradual percolation of abstract thoughts driven by the deliberate assembly of fragmented lines written on scraps of paper and untitled notes on my phone; a crude and convoluted kind of simultaneous construction/deconstruction process that spans months, sometimes years. In this project, I felt somewhat like a translator, making an interpretive rendering of the work of the foremost creative sage in my life. I'm humbled to have the opportunity to collaborate with such a master as he, and humbled that when I read his writing it feels familiar—as if it might have come from my own pen, but infinitely more refined, wise, and impactful.

---

Lyrics:

You throw stones
I put up sticks
the sound we make
is a thunder
when wind wails up
a push through each room
door blows open
letters get tangled
from A onto Z
we put them together
so hard to read

In a constant come-around
Believe me, I should know by now
Remind me how this goes
Broken bones, broken bones
Acquiescent to the tone
Believe me, I should know, I should know
But show me how this goes
Broken bones, broken bones

You carry sticks
I pile up stones
the space between us
sounds like distance
a word so simple to spell
the sentence that we build
is a thunder

---

Sticks

On Planets - Sticks

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--

"Sometimes when you’ve thought a long, long time about where you’re going, you can forget to notice when you’ve arrived;

like reaching the top of a staircase and thinking there’s another step when you’re already at the landing, the lurch to reality feels a lot like falling" - OP

---

It’s the street lights going out,
like a trick the second time,
and it’s all these oily lines I’ve left
from pooling in a basin,
just washing up the sides.

It’s the roots under the pavement,
something moving in the background;
it’s a jacket on a hook behind the door,
all these things I could’ve sworn I’d figured out.

Depicting my ascent, I guess I got too far ahead;
watching steps, I lost my count—
I thought too hard about the end,
and when it comes, for sake of pace
I don’t believe my blurry eyes;
climb a step that isn’t there, falling far,
far, from no height,
and I fall so far behind.

It’s a paper with the answer,
edges soaking in my patience,
though I missed a crucial digit,
still an honest calculation.

It’s a stick between the spokes
with a sudden change of light,
and in the moment that I thought
you might want to stick around,
heard you turn and say goodnight—
I was still one step behind.

---

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From No Height

On Planets & Hanz - From No Height

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"I started writing the lyrics to Context about 4 years ago. At the time, I was convinced that I knew what I was trying to say, but somehow it never felt finished. Over time, after countless de- and re-constructions, it slowly morphed from a song mostly about someone else to a song mostly about myself, and finally was resolved when I came to understand what it was REALLY about.

This tune in particular has been a big part of my personal journey through the last few years and I’m excited that it’s finally out 🦉" - OP

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she speaks in acronym,
been sighing at the top of her lungs
she’s so convincing when she laughs and leads it on

and I’ve been rinsing off
all the colours of a love
that I picked up when I was certain I would never come undone

and I don’t love her
but with this manufactured, sentimental buffer
she really compliments my stubborn side and silence that I keep
until I’m drunk as hell and all the strings come out,
what it’s always been about
can’t she tell

I was tied up trying to tie off loose ends
and pulling on a pretty long thread when I should’ve known better
I had to try hard not to make promises
it left me with a question on the conscience
out of luck and out of context

it was a long time coming
still not long enough
but reticent as ever, she watched me come undone
and I don’t love her
but with this manufactured, sentimental buffer
she really compliments my stubborn side and silence that I keep
until I’m drunk as hell and all the strings come out,
what it’s always been about
can’t she tell

I was tied up trying to tie off loose ends
and pulling on a pretty long thread when I should’ve known better
I had to try hard not to make promises
it left me with a question on the conscience
out of luck and out of context

---

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Context

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"SABOTAGE!" is out now

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