1. Crashout
2. Same TBH
3. Honeycrisp
4. Edutainment
5. Angels in the Static Snow
6. Walk Cycle
7. The Sim
8. I Hope This E-mail...
9. Talk To You Later
10. A Million Postcards
11. On & On
My new album Crash Test releases Friday April 24th!
It’s up for presave on all streaming platforms and for preorder on Bancamp. ( The Bandcamp version comes with a few bonus tracks! )
This project means a lot to me, I can’t wait for you all to hear it.
I haven’t talked about this publicly, but these past couple of years I’ve been dealing with a lot of health anxiety and panic attacks, which all caught up to me late last year. (Which is what the song Crashout is about)
I would go on these long walks, listening to music to drown out my thoughts. I kept imagining myself as a crash test dummy. Something made to be thrown into perilous situations. It was a way of calming myself down,
“I’m not going through this, the crash test dummy is”.
Around that time the second anniversary of my game Kitten Burst was coming up and I wanted to make something for it. I decided to try finishing my song “A Million Postcards” with the vocal synth Kasane Teto. (I wrote the chorus while developing the game, but couldn’t figure out the verses in time for release)
I had such a fun time writing lyrics and tuning her voice, I decided to dust off my lyrics for Talk To You Later and finish that song too (It was the original counter song to Slowblink, but I thought it was too sad for an ending song). Then I dug up some old demos (Honeycrisp, Angels in the Static Snow) and finished those as well.
One day I realized I had made a full album, and it had been months since my last panic attack. My head had been filled with melodies, lyrics, music videos, arg puzzles, 3D modeling, lore…
One must imagine the crash test dummy happy.
TTYL,
Jam
My new indietronica album Crash Test releases in 1 week!
Here's the tracklist + some thoughts on the project ( alt text for typed version )