recently i've been struggling to make music, ESPECIALLY for myself. even though i still enjoy making music and want to make music all the time, it feels more and more difficult to sit down and work on music.

i’ve been wanted to make a proper ep/album for a few years now, but progress has been slow. however, this ep was made in just a day (ish*)—just a big explosion of emotion and ideas—and was meant to be wacky, but still genuine and emotional. i just wanted to tell my brain:

“HEY!!!!! you still got this!!!!!!!!!!!! stop putting yourself down!!!!!!!!!!! if you can do THIS, you can do ANYTHING!!!!!!!!”

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the artwork and is inspired by an accidentally profound thing a friend said:

we were at the park drawing together, and i said "dang, why are trees so hard to draw.” i was trying to draw one of the trees at the park as accurately as i could.

but a friend quickly replied: "what do you mean? trees are easy to draw, see!" and drew a super simple tree.

i think about that a lot.

EMBRACE IMPERFECTIONS! IGNORE EXPECTATIONS! JUST HAVE FUN!!!

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*okay!!! the fourth track was written last november, but i worked on it more to make it fit the aesthetic of the ep.

things'll get better (i hope)

paper aviator is a composer/pianist who lives in the clouds making music for birds (and people too!). ♡

they/she

pfp: https://www.instagram.com/spoonbill.fan/ (that's also me!)