Neither Could Dylan

I told myself when I started this website I’d do more regular blogging and I’m still planning on trying to do that, but within reason, you know?

If you follow my social media channels you know I’m well into recording my next album(s).

I’m working through a collection of over 30 songs, some new, some part of the From a Bedroom Above a Garage collection, some from the earliest days of my songwriting that when initially written, I just didn’t have the confidence or musical ability to fully formulate.

Where it stands, I think I’m looking at two independent albums or a double LP release and a shorter EP of the rest. Like Acceptance, a lot of these songs are about finding yourself through challenging times and processing all of the emotions that come with loss and longing; grief and fear are recurring themes but more than ever they ere on the side of understanding and the belief that things will get better even if they don’t quite look it in the present moment.

I think I have always been this person who is fighting against the pessimistic side of myself who is a little stronger than the eternal optimist. More than ever before I really think this is the only fight that’s worth having with ourselves because it means we’re always working towards improving ourselves and our situations, not giving in or taking the easy way out. If I were to wake up tomorrow and just allow the dread of the world and the feeling that I am utterly powerless to stop anything from happening, I think I would lose myself entirely. I don’t want that for me and I don’t want that for any of you either.

We are not our mistakes. We are not what’s happened to us. We are who we choose to be every day and we are the words we choose to speak.

I don’t have a timeline for these next releases, but at the rate I’m been working it’s possible that I’ll finish all the tracking on these songs within the next couple of weeks. From there I’ll have to decide if I want to mix this project myself or hand it off to someone else and then I’ll start working through putting each song into its respective housing. So, I guess what that means is while there might be a single or two released this year digitally, there probably won’t be a full album release until at least next year.

While I’m here I just want to give you a heads up on where you’re best to find other new stuff or snippets from the record as I continue working on it.

I’m in a place right now where I’m not quite overwhelmed by the sheer abundance of apps and media platforms, but largely don’t see the point of throwing so much time into all of them. I’ll continue to focus most of my new media on Instagram for the photo/video aspect of it, and some of these might spill over into YouTube and TikTok, but otherwise I wouldn’t worry about keeping too close a tab anywhere else. I’m debating in returning a little bit to live-streaming through YouTube but, time will tell.

Anything that’s actually important or relevant will be posted here on this blog. If you ever want to contact me, this is the best place to do it, either in the comments or just send me an e-mail. I really do like to hear from you and I do my best to respond to as much as I can, but with all the apps and their algorithms and restrictions put on by the people in charge of those, there’s a lot that gets missed through those routes.

Thanks again very much for listening & don’t forget that you can subscribe to this blog to get it right to your inbox instead of having to come back here to check when I’ve posted 🙂