It’s September 1st, which means that my album Relentless Eventful is five years old today!
A lot has changed since then. About half a year after its release, I started doing the first ever Petriform shows after a decent hiatus from live performance. It is the last drum & bass/EDM-ish album I released before wrapping up “Brown Plaid” and then inadvertently going all-in on chiptune, from which I’ve yet to return (Don’t worry, it’ll happen!).
It was also the first time I ever printed CDs for a release of mine. Down since day one if you’ve got one of those!
As I imagine it is with most artists, it’s easy for me revisit my old works and pick apart what didn’t work and what could have been done better. There’s a lot, to be sure, but I’m still proud of a lot of the stuff on this album. I think tracks like What it Wouldn’t Take and Celeste still hold up particularly well.
If you’ve only known me over the past few years for chiptune, you might dig this stuff, especially starting about a third of the way through -- I’ve always said in interviews and the like that Rare composer David Wise is the most prominent influence on my stuff, and relistening to it, I think that that particular influence is on display here moreso than anything I’ve done prior or since, if that gives you any indication.
So please check it out if you feel like it! After all, this style of mine may return sooner than you think!