Folklore

Lost at Sea

First track off the new album! I hope you dig it ;)

Accelerated

If that's a lot to know...


There is this recurring dream that I have. At some point in my future, everything I grew up with and everything I know about my past—the places, the memories, the pets, my family, my friends—are replaced with a sprawling empty city, devoid of any life. I drive around at night, homesick, frantically looking for any sign of my past but can only find an orange glow of city streetlights, and a maze of buildings, concrete, and asphalt—all in decay. It's taken me years of reliving this dream to finally realize what it was trying to tell me, with the help of Alan Watts: "The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

I started writing music for Lost Hills as a way to set free this illusion of past and future, to let go of the nostalgia of my childhood and release the persistent, crippling anxiety over what is to come. Lured back to the memories of my 1980s youth, Lost Hills is a collection of weird, slow-motion future-retro synthpop saturated with Betamax-modulated, reverb-drenched synths, delay-soaked staccato guitars, obsolete nu-disco grooves, ice particles floating above peaceful harmonies, along with intimate stories of loss, unmanageable fear, and paralyzing regret.  A record inspired by the synthpop of the past, and a sentimental dream of synthpop from the future.  Lost Hills is depressing music you can dance to.

Dead Pixel

A wanderer decides it is time to venture into the unknown realm of self, but she is not alone as someone she loves is seeking her out from afar.

Dear universe
I've emptied my purse
I am finally awake
The Phoenix reborn
The spear and the thorn
Wont harm me in this state
Illusion of change
I've conquered your maze
Now I'm making my escape
If I get close
And you shut the doors
I will find another way

Heaven holds my heart
The earth demands my weight
Tonight I will depart
To be there with you

Finally Awake

Selections from the EP "Let Go" to be released April 29, 2013

Let Go

6th song on "Throw Money". Drums by Ken Mahru. Mixed and mastered by Jared Crabb.

I ran out of clever things to say.
I'm left with those tired old cliches.
At the end of the day it's all the same...
Out of touch, and I don't know how I feel.
Trying to re-invent the wheel.
I'm needing a jump start for my brain.

(What is wrong?)
I really don't have an answer for that question.
(What is gone?)
There's nothing missing, but I'm only guessing.
(Love is strong.)

And there's one thing that 
I know to be an actual fact.
I fell flat, and love is what was bringing me back.
Now that I know what I lack,
I need another dose of you, stat!

Sometimes I feel like an empty shell 
that isn't doing very well.
That didn't live up to all the hype.
Was this supposed to be my fate?
To be nothing special, nothing great.
It doesn't add up, it don't seem right.

(What is wrong?)
I really don't have an answer for that question.
(What is gone?)
There's nothing missing, but I'm only guessing.
(Love is strong.)

And there's one thing that I know to be an actual fact.
I fell flat, and love is what was bringing me back.
Now that I know what I lack,
I need another dose of you, stat!

I'm not where I thought I'd be.
It turned out to be make believe,
and somehow you're in love with me.
At least there is one thing that I know to be an actual fact.
I fell flat, and love is what was bringing me back.
Now that I know what I lack,
I need another dose of you, stat!

I Fell Flat

I organize the sounds of obsolete electronics and thrift store guitars.

Dead Pixel

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