This is the first single, from my new album. 🚨LINK IN BIO TO LISTEN🚨 Produced & Mixed by: @SubpYao Horns: Roel van Wijk, Dirk Bosman, Tim Paters Bass: Sam Verstraten Backing Vocals: @Bartees_Strange Artwork: @AndyMcAlpineDesign This was supposed to come out in April, and the album was all set for a September release, with a full US and EU tour to follow in October and November...then all hell broke loose with Corona. As borders locked down, and the world ground to a halt, I talked to my team, and everyone advised that we push everything back. This totally gutted me, because Subp Yao and I have been working on the album for so long (he is producing the entire thing), it is such a departure from anything I have done, and I was just so ready for the world to hear it. But, the other exciting part of this album forced us to make the tough call to push it all back. We’ve decided we’re done with record labels (outside of Europe...shout out to Cargo Record for handling us there), and we are DIY or die from here on out. So, we’ll be self-releasing this record (outside of the EU), and it only made sense, that if we are going to do this ourselves, we needed to do it right. So, we pushed the album release back, to very early 2021 with a US & EU tours to follow (will be announcing that soon). I hated doing that, but it was the right thing to do. BUT...I didn’t want to wait that long to start sharing this music with y’all...and so we decided to stick with ONE PART of the original plan, and release the first single before the summer starts. We picked one of my favorite songs off the album, “The Way I Am” and scheduled everything for June 5th. Then all hell broke loose in Minneapolis. If you have been following me on social media at all, you know what this all means for me, both as a long time resident of Minneapolis, and as an American. Hell, if you have listened to the last two albums I made you’ll know what all this means to me. I felt so heartbroken and angry in the last 10 days, so worried for my friends in MPLS, and so furious at my country, it felt hard to think about releasing music. It felt hard to think about anything. CONTINUED BELOW: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDmd4xlfEC/?igshid=1lqzwe182w2ag
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