These past two years I have been writing and finishing one off singles and slowly releasing them one by one and now it's finally the time to release them all together as one package. The idea behind all of this is that since they all worked as singles the songs are all about one very specific moment in time, a snapshot of a moment or a person. Some of these snapshots take place a long time ago (Summer Lines describes a road trip I did more than 10 years ago) while others are much more recent. Lucky Today, Nice Thoughts and Boeing 737 are very specific memories of the hazy times during the pandemic. A couple of these songs are some of my favourite that I have ever wrote and I think capture quite accurately how I was feeling at the moment. In fact some of these songs I don't even want to change one bit which is something rather rare with art where you are always tempted to revise, change and rework.

This album has been in the works for quite a while. Not in a way where I have been working on it steadily for a long time but more as something that was in the back burner for a while and so because of this I have had the privilege to work with such a wide array of people in many different circumstances. There are many people I'd like to thank for making these songs the best they could be. First of all, I would like to thank Rosa for playing the violin wonderfully on so many of these songs. Then George for his amazing creative guitar work. Sam and Alex for playing with me both as a live band for a year and in the studio for the amazing experience that was recording Lucky Today. That experience was also thanks to Zak who invited us into his studio and managed to get us to sound really good and play live. Talking about the studio I would also like to thank Jonny who stepped in to play drums on a couple of tracks and did an incredible job with it. Thank you to Hamilton who truly elevated Summer Lines with his wonderful playing and finally thank you to Hannah who allowed me to record her in a crappy recording studio where she played her bass clarinet better than I could have ever imaged.

Thanks as well to Romano who mixed Please Don't Bend and to Max who mixed and mastered more than one track on this album and thanks to his wonderful work we have continued to work together ever since.