>{n0t3}creat.e/0r.5 “I was in a rough spot when we made this one for sure, my girlfriend moved out, and a good friend and I had to part ways. I was traveling a lot, Oakland to Sacramento and back and spending a lot of time in Nevada helping my dad move. It was November/ December, a hard time to feel alone. It was a cold and solitary desert I found myself within, but it’s what I needed to find myself, but on the upside I had a new guitar at the time. Also I had a really nice piano. We gotta take what comes and try to learn. Hopefully we become better for it. I recorded these songs all over the place with a bit of help from my friends. Just set up the stu wherever and lay down a track or two, try to mix when I had some time at home. I also messed around with recording and running the masters through a tape machine which was pretty sick. This was the first music thing I committed to after releasing my book, which is really supposed to be part of Vol. 2, but to me there’s definitely some type of strong connection between them. To me this album kinda reminds me to keep working on myself, there’s always something to figure out or fight or something. it also was like the whole crew coming back together for the first time since Vol 1. Which was awesome.” -Liam I contributed just a pinch into this project - in the second half of the last track - and it was on a random December night, sometime shortly after the three of us reunited. It felt good to be jamming again. I was also a bit shaken up by life here and this was the year I hid from the world the most. I was going through a breakup and more deeply, I was facing the fact that I was back living in Sacramento after my time in the east coast. I was feeling confused and hopeless over the course of life so I didn't really come out of my shell until late into the year. This memorable night with good old friends was a needed reminder and regain of hope that more good chill days of living and playing music aren't lost on me. This EP for me feels like just a nice closer to everything that came about from 2023 / the past. And it gives me the ambition to keep going and moving and playing. I put this on whenever I feel like I wanna just sit on the grass and think nonsense. -Angel