No Rants Lost
I used to be really good at writing stuff about nothing. For whatever reason, I lost my train of thought a while ago. It must’ve occured after graduation. Since then, life has been filled with viscious musical cycles of regress, shifting from one appealing/mundane genre to the next with little to no sense of loyalty for any. I’ve given up, almost completely, on what was once an almost classless taste of music that used to provide me with an undying sense of satisfaction. Well, as with most things, it got boring after a while. The music began to sound all the same: the good records received bad press and the bad records recieved praise.
The only thing that’s really been appealing to the ears lately has been the very own production of nostalgia.
I’ve worked on a lot of musical projects and most of them never leave the realm of thought. “Shadows” is altogether a compliation of those ideas that somehow made their way into a record for The New Division. The songs were all written in different times, under different circumstances, and for different reasons. It’s been the most challenging piece I’ve ever had to put together, it’s almost been the most exciting.
There aren’t too many things in life I can look at with pride and say, “I’ve put everything into this.” I’m not sure if that’s necessarily a bad thing, but whatever “Shadows” may be one day for the listener, it is to me a deep reflection of my nostalgia.
My whole life is plagued with reminiscence. I tend to reflect not forwardly, but on whatever that’s been left behind. “Shadows,” to whatever degree it may appear, comes about solely in this manner of etiquette: presenting in backwards fashion a forward advance.
