NEW VIDEO, NEW DEMO (The sound of summer ending VOCAL DEMO)

Good morning, happy friday. This week I got distracted by making music.

This week, in lieu of SELECTIONS, premium supporters will get to hear a brand new demo of a brand new song.

THIS WEEK I DROPPED ANOTHER LIVE VIDEO CLIP. Since we're talking "sneak peeks," this week's video is 7 minutes of BUYFI works in progress, and 3 minutes of rethinking my MARO flip.

My first show is in 37 days- join me over on youtube while I build my set:

CHICAGO- See you at the gig, you can get tickets here - January 18th, 2026.

PREMIUM SUPPORTERS- KEEP SCROLLING FOR A BRAND NEW DEMO THAT HAS BEEN DISTRACTING ME ALL WEEK.

Everyone else, thanks for being here, and I hope you'll consider upgrading, because I want you to hear this.

Thanks for stepping outside your algo, thanks for being here. Anyway,

BUYFI SELECTS ON PAUSE DUE TO THIS DEMO

I've been sitting on this instrumental for a long time- it's been called "USING YR PHONE" since the day i recorded the acoustic guitars and the drum machine. I started this track when Rachel and I were living in the Santa Cruz mountains. It rarely rained there, but occasionally it would open up for days, and on one of those days I used a condenser mic when I probably shouldn't have and you can hear the rain in the guitar takes.

I've had the general arc of this vocal figured out for years. I've written no less than 10 versions of each verse, I've demoed 3 of those versions. I finally think I like it, so i'm sharing it with you.

It will still change a lot. The instrumental got some love and started some collaboration conversations. So, for now, I'm calling it "The sound of summer ending," and doing the vocal myself, but we'll see where it lands.