You’ll Be Alright

You can listen a new song I released - the first thing I’ve released in a pretty long time. It’s called “You’ll Be Alright”.

A few years ago I quit/hiaitused all my music projects, to make more time for family and just reset my creative work a bit. Music in my life had become more obligations, business, and emails, and less actually just making music. The change shifted my attention away from music a bit - it made space for my wife to pursue some of her passion projects, I joined a baseball team. But writing music is something I can’t not do, so I’ve been tinkering away the whole time with no clear outlet.

So recently, feeling ready to engage musically with the outside world, I decided to start finishing off some of this work and sending it onward. “You’ll Be Alright” is the first to be plated up. It’s a song about my kids, and the difficulty of letting them thrive away from home. Trusting teachers, extended family, coaches, etc. to look after them and look out for them when you're not there is just something you have to do. But you just never actually know for certain they'll be alright, which is HARD.

The recording grew from an impulse to make and release something personal and imperfect, with the residue of human hands smudged across the whole thing. I've been recording a lot of guitar lately, enjoying playing, and here we veer in the more mid-west emo direction of my interests. I've also been into finger-drumming; drums here are all played in on the Ableton Push.

This is the first thing I've released in a while, and will be the first in a string of monthly-ish singles into 2026, as I try to finish off more of the little bits and pieces I’ve created in the quiet of the past few years.