THE ISLAND OF DOUBT

THE ISLAND OF DOUBT is my latest album on my own label. 

Since humans like categorizing and finding patterns and I’m human (mostly) i guess this is part of my Grief cycle. Whereas Anabasis, Katabasis and Trogloxene were from my Pandemic cycle and of a certain theme, THE ISLAND OF DOUBT joins A BRIGHT EYED CREATURE and my forthcoming album THE EXPEDITIONS as documents of the period after my father’s death. With it’s sudden onset and the subsequent loss my world was thrown into torment and upset. These are the sounds of that. 

THE ISLAND OF DOUBT takes its name from a line out of the Talking Heads song Crosseyed and Painless. It seemed appropriate given how the world seems today and how the music collected herein sounds. 

It started off as a shorter album of only an hour in length. I’d been shopping it around for a year or so with little interest. After yet another rejection I threw caution to the wind and decided to release it on CNDHMN. Then something happened in the process of getting the album ready. Some tracks that were in the original sequence no longer fit. Other songs long cut from the sequence returned while still others I’d never considered were added. I tweaked them, made some shorter and made some longer. 

All that made it a way better record and a longer record, too. I am proud of both of these things. It follows a course and path I didn’t know was there while the newer versions sound unlike a lot of what I’ve done before. The new edits and pacing breathe life into a very difficult to make album that hopefully is not as difficult to listen to though I do want you to be challenged a bit by the music herein. 

Please enjoy.