Still People in Moving Images is my debut studio album, recorded over a span of roughly a year and a half with multiple release delays due to my terrible sense of timing.

All thirteen tracks were written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by myself in my bedroom (like most artists these days), using the limited resources I already had readily available, such as GarageBand on my iPhone, my Squier Telecaster (which i've affectionately named "Alpha") and Sony Vegas to create crossfades and other things GarageBand can't do on it's own. Almost no money went directly into the making of this album, aside from the meals I bought at local fast food outlets to keep me going for the past six months.

This album was personally selected to be finished among a series of other "albums" i've been working on since 2011 (since that same year, which is when I began taking an interest in songwriting, i've written about 200+ original songs, for better or for worse). I had initially chosen the earliest of these albums to be finished and released first, though the songs became extremely boring to work on (basically the weirdest fusion of Ride and The Verve you can think of). So, instead, I chose my personal favorite of these albums to finish recording instead.

The general sound of the album, as well as my sound in general, is based on a unique fusion of 90's shoegaze (i.e. My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive) and post-Britpop (i.e. early Coldplay), as well as a bit of modern indie rock (i.e. Interpol, Arcade Fire, The National), a sound that i've created and used since 2014, and have personally dubbed "slowgazing", due to my typical preferences for slower tempos, and it's comparability to slowcore music (that, and "Britgaze" didn't click quite as well, and neither did "shoepop"). Adding to this already heavy, atmospheric sound, Still People in Moving Images in specific also takes inspiration from genres such as gospel, chorale, jazz, blues, new wave, post-punk, EDM, krautrock, trip-hop and post-rock, thus ultimately creating a colorful-sounding album where no two songs are exactly alike.

Like 99% of indie rock records these days, the lyrical content of these particular songs suggest themes of loss, desire, regret, adventure, mental escapism, anxiety, depression, separation, coming of age and flamingo transformation.

Is it the best album you'll have ever heard since Dark Side of the Moon? Probably not. There are some songs off this album that sometimes make me cringe a slight bit. However, if you're a fan of artistically and heavily layered music with plenty of reverb, echo, feedback, background noises and other icings on the cake, you might enjoy what I have to offer here.