The new album I Co-Executive Produced is out now! Repost from @michaelxomichael • To Build Me a House THE ALBUM Is finally yours. I am so deeply proud of this body of work. The last two years making this has required deep reflection, pain, and ultimately, transmutable joy. I think of this record as the welcome home to myself I didn’t know I needed. Thank you to my co-executive producer @reubenbutchart for being co-pilot, teacher, confidante, musical partner, and generous friend every step of the way. I love you Reubs. Thanks to everyone who said I couldn’t, and the many more who believed I could, because I am doing it ALL, honey. Thank you @getbetterrecords for championing this album when it was still a collection of 36 demos. Especially @alex_licktenhour & @kojisaysaloha. I love you both. The credits, the songs themselves, and the short video clip I made to “House in Vermont” in the last slide express the way this album has molded me better than words here can, for now. I hope you immerse yourself in these stories, in this world that I’ve risked everything to build. This album art! Was based on a simple photo taken in Tompkins Square park in NYC’s East Village by family @ralvarezartcom … that day I’d taken my first day of hormones. I was so giddy and over caffeinated, and this artistic portrait is how Richard remembers me, looking toward the future, my hair a flowing crown of glory, my skin glowing, my smile content. My dear @brett_lindell photographed Richard’s artistic rendering, lighting it carefully, handling the work with the preciousness of someone deserving of focus, time, and undivided attention. That is how I recommend you dive into this work. Immersively, expansively. I hope you love what you find. And I hope you feel inspired to add whatever you need to your own home, which as we know, is wherever you are. I love you. Michelle PS. Today is @bandcamp Friday and if you really believe Black Trans Lives Matter, you’ll support me by buying this work there, which cost me a small fortune to make. I want to keep making elevated work that feeds the soul. Let’s do this together. ❤️ https://michaellovemichael.bandcamp.com/album/to-build-me-a-house https://www.instagram.com/p/CkixYJgM3RN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=