I'm an independent musician from Western Australia, and I've been playing music for over 10 years.
I play a wide range of instruments and have composed and recorded hundreds of original songs.
I released my first full length LP at just 15, and now at 19, have released five more.
My first album, titled 'Ask the Painter', featured 7 jazz-inspired instrumental tracks. Although I had written and produced other tracks before this, Ask the Painter was the first collection of tracks that I made an album out of, and was the first project for me to upload to streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.
For my second album, 'Umbrella Hills', I decided to have most of the songs share a common theme - sleep. As well as having nearly double the tracks of my previous LP, I also explored other genres, such as Art-Pop, Lo-Fi, Piano Ballads, Soft Rock and Electronic Music. However, I was still too insecure to include vocals on these tracks.
In late 2023, I released 'sitcom', in which 7 out of the 8 tracks featured my own vocals. By now, my style had shifted to a sort of Bedroom Pop and Soft Rock vibe, which matched with the heavy and brooding lyrics I was singing. The main idea behind this project was that everyone is always acting, whether they want to or not.
Two months after sitcom, I released a single. titled 'kids'. Based on a true story from someone close to me, this song speaks on society's recent glorification of mental illness, and is sung from the POV of a teenager who gets his friend to indulge in self-destructive behaviour so that he can fit in.
In September 2024, I released an LP titled 'i see you'. It has 10 tracks, and delves into issues from my childhood in the first 5 songs, and issues in my adolescence in the last 5 songs. The album overall explores themes of family dysfunction, peer pressure, imposter syndrome, coping mechanisms, insecurities and ultimately self love. The phrase 'i see you' is initially introduced under a negative light, as the thought of someone knowing what I'm truly like when no one's watching scared me. But, in the last track I bend the phrases connotation in a positive way, and make the point that being honest with each other and letting your insecurities show will help not only others to understand you better, but help you learn to love yourself. Also, by having the cover art be me as a little kid, the phrase 'i see you' is also referring to the fact that I recognise the younger version of me in myself today, especially when I'm dealing with a lot. This goes well together with the structure of the album, especially with the two tracks 'next week' and 'next year' mirroring each other as the 2nd and 9th songs, and how they show that my coping mechanisms have stayed consistent throughout my life.
In the days before the release of 'i see you', my friend Bella committed suicide. I wrote a couple of songs about her, intending to release a small project titled 'songs for Bella'. Unfortunately, I lost a couple of those songs when my hard drive got corrupted, and after my girlfriend broke up with me, I changed the subject of my songs more towards the theme of heartbreak rather than grief. So, I was left with this project. A mix of the two themes tied up in as best a way I could manage. The album mainly focusses on my guilt and my regrets. How everything I ever did impacted the lives of two women that I love and care about, and that I would do anything to alter the course of events and create a future that doesn't suck so much.
My most recent release is 'better luck next time!', a conceptual album about time travel as a metaphor for regrets. The lyrics of the individual songs talk about various regrets within a single failed relationship, and I fantasize about using my time machine to go back and do everything correctly. In 'my time machine' I lament the fact that the machine is broken, seemingly beyond repair, which ties back to the track 'i can fix her' which talks about the futility of fixing a car as a metaphor for fixing a dead relationship. Finally, in the final track of the album, titled 'forget me entirely', I exhaustedly reveal that "I finally fixed my time machine", and choose to go back to when I was 17. However, in a tragic and cyclical end to the album, the time machine causes me to lose all my recent memories, and I'm destined to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, forever.