Journal 3 (November 8th 2024)
Hey, David here!
Welcome to this week’s journal! As always, we post these updates weekly, and if you ever miss one, you can catch up on our journal page linked in the button below. Here’s what’s new:
This week, we had an awesome session with an artist from LA named CHRISTIAN ALLAIN, who has some dope tunes on his Spotify. He reached out to us back in April for a writing session, and I’m glad we finally got to make it happen over FaceTime.
Songwriting with someone new can feel a bit like a first date—you go in with a general idea but not much else and just feel things out. It’s even trickier when you’re not in the same room, like Chris and us (since we’re in NY).
What I love about songwriting is how therapeutic it can be when it’s done right. Sometimes, we talk about everything going on in our lives—the pain points, issues, adventures, anything—and connect through the shared human experience. You end up bonding quickly because great songwriting calls for openness and a desire to connect.
The goal then becomes putting that shared experience into a song, which can take so many cool shapes. Sometimes you just click and everything flows; other times, it takes a few sessions to really get into it.
In our session this week, we all clicked right away. Chris is super cool, talented, and hardworking. Definitely check out his music when you get a chance. The song we wrote together is called Miss Novocaine, and though it’s not finished yet, I’m really excited to complete it. We’re likely to release it as a collaboration after our first EP drops. I attached a little early demo for you to listen to below. 👇🏼
Speaking of our first EP, LOML, I want to thank everyone who snagged a free signed copy. So far, we’ve shipped packages to 24 people across the US, and more people are jumping in every day, so thank you! 😭🤗
We’re pushing the official release of LOML to January 7th. This gives us time to finish the songs for our second EP and get them mixed and mastered before our engineer, Yianni, heads out for the holidays. It also gives us more time to create some great content for IG and TikTok. Balancing song-finishing mode with content-creating mode can be a lot!
Overall, it’s been a good week, though I’m feeling a bit mentally drained (probably from sleep deprivation—daylight savings really messed with my sleep). But I’m hanging in there. 🙌🏼
- Dave 👋🏼
