Newly Sincere, Punctums and Rurality

I'm still making odd, woozy music.

Between December 2023 and February 2024 I released five music projects under a pseudonym¹. I like them a lot and wish I could share them here but that would defeat the purpose. Everything I made in March and April 2024 was closer in spirit to my (then-defunct) Curtsy Rehearsed project so I decided to release them under that old moniker.

The most recent project is Rurality , which I made in a day after a short trip to the countryside. It was mostly inspired by "found scenes", like peculiar country sheds bursting with wood and decorated with buoys. I like the idea of making tiny albums as an immediate response to an experience and it's something I intend to explore.

Just before Rurality I made Newly Sincere. I was really happy with how this one turned out — I'm especially partial to track 5. Here I finally abandoned any pretence of making hip-hop and it was freeing. Drums are almost completely absent in this one and that forced me to experiment more with mood, percussion and texture.

Punctums was a direct response to Newly Sincere. After a largely drumless project I wanted to use drums again! Programming drums is something I tend to find quite boring so I varied the tempo and time signatures a lot to make it more interesting for me and the listener. Each song was made by first laying down the drums and I think this made them feel more integrated.

These albums are available on BandCamp for free but you can offer a donation if you like. It's always a pleasant surprise when my incompetence at marketing pays off.