It's almost been a month since I moved to LA and I've moved out of my first sublet in Koreatown. My landlord was tweaking and we were fighting about the deposit, but that's more of an irl convo to be had. In any case, I dropped Melancholia and it feels cathartic. It ended up scoring my life for a while. After I moved out of that space, the apartment I was subletting fell through right after I had moved in. The landlord there had dementia, and apparently didn't recall the lease agreement the subletter had made with her, so it wasn't safe to stay there.  I was in a motel in Hollywood for a little under a week. Roaches in the sheets!!! (Though, the bathroom was quite nice.)

back to melancholia!

I wasn't in a great place when I wrote it. It was about mid-pandemic and I had just been getting into the swing of going back to work in physical space. Creatively, I was feeling resigned, so writing this felt like a breathe of fresh air, something inspired! I was bummed - and always am, implicitly speaking - about the climate catastrophe, and decided to make that a part of the song on the outro. 

Macromelancholy, micromelancholy, it's all connected. The seasons don't really change in LA like that, but I wrote the song for falling of leaves, especially in Indy. I like to sit on Fall Creek Parkway throughout the season and watch them change - it's mad idyllic. 

I think this song belongs to an album, but I'm playing around with some sequencing things and how songs are flowing together. Doing visuals, all the rollout stuff. That sort of thing - maybe dropping in Nov. if it comes together!