“Sunlight of the Century”

I made this because… as a songwriting exercise, I wrote a song a day for about two hundred days. For me, a song was anything with two sections or something that felt like it could stand up on its own. They were different kinds of songs than I usually write, a little more everyday feeling and folky. Of the two hundred, I narrowed it down to about 40 songs that I spent time recording more properly. I don't have enough money to record all those 40 songs at the quality I would like to, so I picked 18 songs (about 50 minutes of music) to record in the studio, which will be released on an album in 2025 -- but that's a different project.

Sunlight of the Century consists of the leftover songs, songs that I still love but didn't make the cut for the studio album. In some ways, they are more representative of the original songwriting exercise because they're rough around the edges, and you can hear the outside world leaking into the recordings. I'm particularly attached to Tree Song, Just Right, and I Like This Guitar. Tree Song surprised me -- I set off to write the song with a specific intention but by the third stanza I realized I needed to write about something else entirely.

Creative Inspiration:

• Jessica Pratt, I stole the album title from her song "World on a String"

• Dan Reeder, especially Every Which Way, his 2020 album)

• “This Guy's In Love With You” by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and

• “Wichita Lineman” by Glen Campbell 

How can people stay close to your work:

Follow Von Thrasher, Bike Lane and Toysareus on Spotify -- those are my three main musical projects.

If this work was an animal: frog