My New Album: Unmeaningful Consumption Experiences
Unmeaningful Consumption Experiences is out now on bandcamp!
Copy-paste from the description on bandcamp:
This has two themes. The first is the feeling of being in a world that has been turned upside down, while grasping for a sense of normalcy --somewhat unsuccessfully. The second is an exercise in figuring out how to stand out with meaningful human-made art in a world where music can be prompted into existence and the resentment of even feeling like I have to think about that."Breaking News" pulls you into a landscape that demands your attention, jumping wildly from topic to topic without room to breath or make sense of the information that comes before. It's purposely trying to throw you off it's trail.
"Unmeaningful Consumption Experience" is music that wants to sound normal, but is on the verge of falling apart at every moment. Someone once described this as ramshackle, and I think that's the perfect descriptor.
"The Shortest Distance to Nowhere" sounds normal on the surface, but it never settles on where it wants to go. This is a song that came out of a challenge I made for myself. I used a random chord generator. I had to use the chords in order, but could add as many chords in-between as to get to the next destination, path-finding my way to some sense of normalcy with creative use of melody and the passing chords. It's aimless while pretending not to be.
"The Sun is Out Free Vitamin D For Everyone" is the feeling of being lured into false sense of security and being over-taken by anxiety.
"Stumbling Into 2026 Like Whatever" is the song that started the whole theme of the album. The point was to create a sense of unwanted apathy in the face of the surrounding anxiety-inducing world.
"The Unpredictability Becomes Predictable" marks a decision to make something that doesn't really care if it is standing out. I should still be able to make something that fades to the background; that isn't so desperate to be heard. Who cares if it doesn't stand-out? In a way, I was trying to not even sound like myself...but I think I failed at that mission; it's hard to escape yourself.
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But who knows, maybe it's just instrumental music with no inherent meaning.
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All tracks were made during FAWM 2026 (February Album Writing Month)