#*2022albums

“This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. The floors we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching — hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes twelve we'll meet ourselves.”

"All these songs about me loving these people who never really ended up telling me that they loved me back, but everybody knew that's what was happening." — Conan Gray [fonts used]

"There’s this really nice rapport that I have with my community, and this mutual understanding that we can all grow, and change, and try out different things, and be open to whatever that may be." — mxmtoon [fonts used]

“I was reflecting more on what that extreme emotion causes in you. It’s a subject that I find really inspiring because there’s a lot of different things to take away from it, and that was what I was broaching with this album.”

“With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again. I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible.”

“I suddenly feel this tearing of my identity and my desires. To be a performer but also to want a family might not be as simple for me as it is for my male counterparts.”

“What makes you happy? What are your values? I think this record overall is about finding out what those boundaries are.”

“Laurel Hell is a soundtrack for transformation, a map to the place where vulnerability and resilience, sorrow and delight, error and transcendence can all sit within our humanity, can all be seen as worthy of acknowledgment, and ultimately, love. I accept it all. I forgive it all.”