Why combine March and April?

Well, I'm graduating in a few days, and I thought it would be cool to combine my last material as an undergrad into one album! A lot of the songs reflect on my last experiences at Bloomsburg University, so I suppose it's appropriate to say that this is a look into my feelings leading up to graduation. There's melancholy and emptiness, but there's also joy and triumph.

It isn't easy being a senior in college and trying to write full-fledged songs.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's a fight with time. This album is March and April's work smashed into one effort. As you can imagine, most songs are what my digital art teacher would call "works-in-progress". But that's okay.

On my last album I listed some of the things I learned while making it. I learned some things here, too.

Once again I want to reiterate that this project is about forgiveness. I had to forgive myself for not having any ideas for half of March. I had to forgive myself for writing shorter, less detailed songs. I had to forgive myself for simply not wanting to write when I should have. When my year-long time with Blisscipline is up, I'll probably look back and call this the "work-in-progress" album. I'll shrug it off and laugh. Even if I find some of the songs unlistenable, there still might be a bit of light in a few of them.

As an artist, it's tough to love the things I make. All I want to do is destroy, repair, destroy. It is very hard for me, a self-proclaimed perfectionist, to make something and feel satisfied. But this album is me trying to let go of that feeling, and go back to one of the original project goals: just getting my thoughts out. Writing them down. Putting them out there on the web. Having tangible material, and saying "I did it."

Some of them are sloppy. Some of them are just quick ideas. For some of them, I literally pressed "record" and just winged it. But that feels good to say as I type this! It means I'm still working my way up.

This next stage in my life will be scary. But with this album, I'm eagerly saying goodbye to student life and hello to my adult life. I'm going to do bigger and better things. I'm going to "unrelate" the past and present.

Songwriting is what charges me up like lightning through my veins. And people like you, who support me, drive my thundering heart. I do this for me, but more importantly, for you!