But we’ll get to that in a bit. I’m having a pretty good workflow these days. I feel good and I feel the momentum. I think i’m being a lot more patient with myself and not trying to cram 1000 things into one day. If I just breathe and focus on a couple things for the day, at the end of the week I still feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. Which has honestly been surprising! Focussing on less accomplishes more? Make it make fucking sense! It’s torturous to have an endless to-do list day every day. But…

I’ve had a complicated relationship with release day over the years. At my best it’s been exciting, at my worst it’s been soul-crushing. To say the invention of streaming services has added a new pressure to ‘release day’ would be putting it lightly. We’re all vying for a chance to be seen amongst a smorgasbord of a fuck-ton of music from a myriad of genres. I’ve been putting out music since about 2007 (it’s wild to even say that) and I’ve noticed myself get overwhelmed with it at times. I think i’m better with it now. I’ve deleted all the ‘stats’ apps off my phone and tried to focus on “what do i really care about?” I try to be realistic. I want people…

I’m sitting here listening to Kid A for about the 500th time in my life and I still love it. Like, I really fucking love it. The album somehow still surprises me at times, and other times it feels like it’s from the future. That’s a quality I love in music, when something sounds fresh many years later. I love music because it’s puzzling and infinite. It’s this weird mix of something thats calculate but also spontaneously emotional. I don’t know, it’s hard to put into words, but I love it for so many reasons. I guess music would be the perfect…

It’s a pop up summer baby! On Friday Kyle and I hit the road for Victoria, dreading the concept of being in a BC Ferry line all day but coming out victoriaous (see what I did there?) as we boarded the 11am with no wait time. We picked up generators on the way into town, stopped for coffee, and started driving up the coast line scoping out spots for this pop up. I can’t stress how much of a “pop up” these truly are since by 2PM we still weren’t sure where…

What are the ripple effects of the pandemic in my world as a creative? I think the boom of Zoom culture is one of the them. I can say with utmost confidence (and zero research) that there has definitely been a spike of Zoom meetings to exactly 10,000%. I think we all feel it. It feels eerily similar to how me and my peers feel about social media. Is it a necessary evil? Something we all take part in, even though we…

At 7:30 a few people started trickling in. By 8:30 it was a few hundred. Once the sunset peaked I started to lose count, it had become a sea of people, and it was incredible. Everyone was in such a positive mood, the vibe was immaculate, the weather was perfect, it was all unreal. Once night hit, we reached peak energy levels and a proper beach rave was in full force. Then the cops showed up…

The album is out. Thank you to everyone who has listened and shared it. Especially if you've listened to it front to back, no interruptions. (My favourite way to consume music*.) I’m quite happy with how cohesive the record is as a whole. I won’t say too much about it, because I do find it a bit laborious to talk about music. As the maxim says, “talking about music, is like dancing about architecture.” I find that to be very true. Sometimes I’m asked to write a quote about my latest song and my visceral reaction is to think…

I’m off to LA to write some music this week. I’ll be there when my sunset album comes out this Friday. I’m also playing a show with my other project Glass Petals at Sound Nightclub on Thursday. It’s the first night for Walker & Royce’s monthly label residency there! We have been working on some music together too. I love when things all line up and the schedule packs out. Going to write new music in LA feels like a…

Your 31st tattoo… not as hard. My first one took me about 5 years to decide what I wanted. It needed to be perfect. It needed to mean something. My 31st… I saw it in a window that day and thought it looked cool. 1 hour later it was permanently on my body. I love them both. 

I guess that’s a…

(…but I probably did.)

I escaped the city for 4 nights to the Sunshine Coast. It’s just far enough that it feels like you’re away, but not so far that it’s a pain to get to. I like the calmness of the world outside of the city. You don’t realize how crowded it is in a city until you come back to it. I guess I would describe myself as a ‘city person’ and because of that, I have a ‘city mind.’ (A term I came up with just now.) I feel like my mind is like the city that I live in. Crowded and unorganized, but also…

The other day I was thinking about why it’s so hard to start something new. What makes a fresh page scary? What makes a blank canvas daunting? I think the way we're marketed creativity is the same thing that makes us stuck. “Endless Possibilities.” This sounds enticing but…

I’m on a delayed plane from Ft Lauderdale to Denver, and then I’ll continue back to Vancouver. The flight delay is 40mins and my connection is only 1 hour… should be interesting. “Interesting” is my favourite way to describe “possible impending disaster.” I’m sure when someone saw the Jan 6th crowd outside the capitol, they thought, “should be interesting.”

That reference felt apt since…

I’m currently flying back to Vancouver from Edmonton. I played at Soundwave last night, which was a rave in a waterpark in the West Edmonton Mall. If you don’t know what that mall is, congratulations, you’re probably not Canadian. But in Canada, it’s always been a big thing, I mean… it’s a fucking mall with waterparks (and rollercoasters!) Wild. There’s a sense of nostalgia there, I remember visiting it when we drove to Alberta from BC, and as soon as that chlorine smell hits you, those trips come back in full force. Full circle moments like that in this career are always fun and sort of surreal for me.