My new song, “On My Mind” will be out this Friday, September 5!

I’ve had the experience - and I hope you have too - of falling deeply, madly in love. I’m talking about that all-consuming feeling that engulfs you like a wave and sends you tumbling without an idea of which way is up.

I wrote this song one morning in an upstate new york apartment. I was bundled up against the late autumn frost seeping in through the building’s insulation. At the time, the idea for my new album was only starting to form, so I’d gotten into the habit of waking up and almost immediately opening my recording software to tinker. I spent a few months doing this, playing around without any goal in mind. It had been a long time since I’d written a song and I didn’t want to put too much pressure on myself.

As it often goes with these things, long periods of stalling, fruitless work lay the foundation for sudden bursts of progress. And so it was with “On My Mind.” After nearly 2 months of writing scraps of lyrics and chords, this song tumbled out of me on that cold November morning. Within 30 minutes of picking up my guitar, I had written and recorded the entire demo.

There’s something simple about this song that I find deeply charming. It doesn’t try to do too much. It only observes what it feels like to have an absolute smoke show living rent-free in my head. I hope you enjoy :)