'Vacation!' was born out of this realization that love or anything adjacent to it has most often started for me while I was on vacation. I figure I am in a different state of mind and it opens me up to those types of things.

This EP covers three different entanglements, if that's what you want to call it, and the ways they made me feel: awake, excited, light, heavy, yearnful, dreadful, and alive.

'I Don't Wanna Go Home!' is the embodiment of the feeling of having to leave something so fun and fleeting behind. In my case, I'd just gotten home from a trip to Chicago, I was falling in love with the city and had this weekend with friends that felt so fun and separate from my daily life and I was unhappy to be back to the norm. 

Standard vacation experience, but it still manages to sneak up on me every time.

'Hearbreak Enthusiast' feels like a thesis statement for myself as an artist.

I love to indulge in emotion in all its facets when it comes to my life and my art and this EP was an expression of my love for that in the form of two halves of a broken heart, or two halves of a record, 4 songs each.

A suit I hand-sewed a broken heart onto still hangs in my closet and I will never stop creating more moments for me to put it back on again.

This was an era of exploration and growth for me as an artist in such a major way and I will always hold this era so close to my whole entire heart, not just half.

I wrote this song in 2021 during a time where I was evidently reflecting a lot on the boundaries I set for myself; more like the lack there of. 

BOUNDARIES! is playful, it is cynical, it is sarcastic, but it is hopeful! This song is 100% an expression of me trying to manifest the ability and will to set boundaries (and I'm happy to say that I've progressed a lot since then).

We’ve all passed the threshold of staying up too late and your mind begins to run rampant thinking about love, modernity, and wondering what the hell you’re really doing. I wrote this song one night (morning?) last June at 5am about just that. When you're up late and your mind is running wild, you're midnight running.

P.S. He really was on the town and I was there at my house. We love a real time recounting of events.

Letting go is often portrayed at catastrophic, epic, or dramatic but sometimes you just wake up one morning and suddenly you can just shrug it off.  

I wrote this song trying to work up to that with some things in my life.  People who make you feel like shit don't deserve the dramatic goodbye, just leave them with a shrug and say "it's cool".

I wrote this when I was infatuated with someone I hardly knew.  I remember seeing them and immediately feeling this deep rooted longing that lasted for too long.  As time went on, I was constantly asking myself is it bad things that I like them? Is it bad that I get butterflies every time they walk into a room? But no matter how bad I thought it might be, it also felt all too good.  So this dedicated to all the dreamy, starry eyed lovers out there, constantly falling in love with unattainable and equally unavailable people.

 The idea of something or especially someone meaning nothing to me has always been terribly daunting. It is often the most painful part of the process of letting go. It leaves you at the docks refusing to even step foot into a boat with the fear that once you to the light on the horizon you’ll miss the rocky waters and the docks you once stood on because at least then, it all meant something to you. I wrote this song knowing that it is something that needs to be accepted and embraced, if not with open arms, at least hesitantly.

I wrote this one when I was in the 10th grade. I really know how to fabricate a romance, so much so that it not only plays what seems to be the perfect melodies with my heart strings but weaves enchanting thoughts through the mind just as well. This song is about the idea of creating someone so amazingly and perfectly unattainable.  Because we all want what we can't have, right? I made this demo when I was 15 and just starting out production. I love how I can hear the progress over the years.