Ok, I’m going to talk about this a lot at some point, but today I finished the vocals for @MtOriander LP. I started this quarantine with no lyrics for this project or @PartingBand and have now written lyrics/vocals and recorded 17 songs since early June, plus two guest songs!

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It’s been very difficult, but I think I really found myself again, writing and singing and playing music in general.

It’s wild to think I stopped playing music for a long time there. It just wasn’t something I felt like doing and I needed that a break. When we decided to

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stop, I thought I might be done with music. Or at least I was done NEEDING to make music. I was burned out and badly needed space and time off.

I went back to a normal job and just kind of existed for a while. I needed that. If I had kept making music, it wouldn’t have felt

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right. Now I feel like I NEED to make it again and it has felt good again. Some things you can’t push and if you do, it falls apart anyway.

Even after all these years, the fact that anyone still cares for me to start doing this again sticks with me. It makes me really
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appreciate the fact that people still want to hear what I do. I was hoping to get back to music earlier than I did, but things have a way of working themselves out in its own time.

I didn’t plan on writing this thread, but here we are, haha.

So I just want to say thanks for

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listening to us still, and even if you never give my new bands a shot, that’s ok. It’s special to find a place in someone’s heart, so I’m grateful if we found a place in yours.

Next year, my musical absence is over and I am overjoyed to be able to share with you all again.

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