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I wanted to write this bio myself. I’m releasing my first EP as Shyla Buff and it means something to me. I write a lot of songs for a lot of things and, while meaningful in their own way, writing with an express purpose in mind can yield somewhat formulaic results. At the other end of that spectrum of “art”, the opposite of THAT creative process, is ERASED. 

I sat down and wrote these songs without trying to sound like anything at all. There’s a part of my spirit that’s been festering away inside me for a long time, fermenting into a potent mix of feelings that I’ve allowed myself to uncork on this record. Don’t worry mom, I’m okay. 

It’s a pretty dark record. You’ll find me trying to cope with frustration, hurt, fear, unease, unknowing. The things that I/we usually try to keep hidden and off of instagram. Those are what I wrote about. These things in no way dominate my life but seemed to want to dominate this record. 

Maybe it’s the fact that I wrote them during a cold, grey winter in an Atlanta to which I had recently moved back to and wasn’t necessarily ready to re-embrace yet. Maybe it’s that my studio sits in the shadow of the of the imposing United States Penitentiary in a fiscally depressed neighborhood, a constant reminder of confinement and limitation. Or maybe it’s simply “The sound of loneliness makes me happier”. Whatever the case, the creation of ERASED felt dark and low, but also (and ultimately) immensely uplifting and fulfilling. It’s maybe the realest thing I’ve ever written. 

I hope you like these four songs and I hope they might mean something to you as well. There’s a hell of a lot of negativity to feel trying to be human. No one likes to talk about it but we’re all failing and hurting in some way. These songs didn’t necessarily comfort me, but it felt a lot better to process everything a little than to just keep it bottled up. Maybe you can find some catharsis here too. 

Info: banvardmusicgroup@gmail.com

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