Third Single Released!
As my music goes, Coastal is easily my most directly autobiographical, but as autobiography it’s extremely limited. It whips through my first 19 years in a single verse, then dawdles through my early twenties, swirls down around a particular heartbreak, and lands on a moment of epiphany on a dirty city street far away from home.
In an angstier album that might have been, (if I’d recorded any of this in my twenties) this song would have stood out for being so interested in the idea of home. Then, it would have been burdened with a long dreary title, like “The Summer After Pt. III: Coastal” See, it was the end of a 3-part tale of my journey through heartbreak and growth and blah blah blah. Theres a reason the first two parts (“Scorched”, and “Drive” for the curious) didn’t make the cut, and that this song has been changed to fit my current point of view. Now, it’s about understanding what home means. Whether it’s a place, an identity, a homestead, a partner, a mission, a family, or something truly intangible. And what if, while searching, you push all of that away; whats home then?! The lynchpin of the epiphany is about understanding distrust, and how it can shake one’s very foundations.
Years later, I’d find myself Home. As a place, a partner, a mission, a family, and a homestead; each of which came to me once I finally stopped looking for it. The Reprise of Coastal (dedicated to the amazing partner who’s built this Home with me) stands as a promise of resolution for that lost twentysomething. The heartachey kid staring at trash floating between skyscrapers, inventing some subtle shade to throw at his ex via overt symbolism, as though that would solve anything. I believe now I could never have put Coastal down on record without the Reprise to answer it. To be able to look back on that fool I was and tell him there was so much good ahead of him if he would only look up and forward.
As I pitched it to the streaming services: “An indie-rock ladder, beginning with gentle bittersweet reflection, gradually building into a layered rock-ballad, and finally swelling to an expansive conclusion.”
Huge thanks, as always, to Tyler Prendergast for the beautiful cover art for the single release!
Stay tuned for more news in the weeks to come!