Sketchpad

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I don’t remember when I started this album but it began to exist around the same time as Moonlighting. I never considered it as being finished but I stopped actively working on it shortly after Brooklynati was released. In the 3-4 year time that I worked on it I lived in my Grandmother’s basement in Ohio, in a sparsely furnished apartment in Maryland and a room for rent in Brooklyn and my headspace was completely different in each living space. I like to imagine that somewhere in the multi-verse this album dropped instead of Don Cusack in High Fidelity.

A few of these songs are technically done but most of them are just very well fleshed out demos meaning that the verses are placeholders with mispronounced words imperfect cadences. I kept saying that I’d redo them to fix or update lines but due to other projects, moving around and perfection syndrome I never did. going in to finish them now is kinda tricky since I’m so far removed from the person that I was when I made this music. With this in mind I figured it was better to honor that moment in time by letting them exist as is.

In it’s current state this album serves as a sketch of what life was for me back then; a young man leaving home in search of a dream and very uncertain about his journey. All things considered I think that guy did pretty good for himself regards to having a career in music and and if you’re taking time out of your day to read this he definitely appreciates it.

credits

released May 7, 2021

Written by Donwill
Produced by Brickbeats
Illustrated by Paul Barman
Cover Designed by George Gomez for GOMEZ