This album came out rather quickly. At least compared to the other albums I’ve done in the past. I wrote all these songs between the end of December 2020 and January of 2021. It was a process I kinda had to do otherwise I think I would have gone mad. Similar to what a lot of people were experiencing at the time, I think I really hit a new kind of low point last January. I was lucky enough to be with my family at that time but isolated from everyone else.

I that situation I didn’t have much musical equipment but I tried to take advantage of that. In the spare room I set up my childhood plastic keyboard which I never really used back then and started writing songs. I usually write songs on guitar so this was a change.


I think forcing myself to write only using a piano lent itself to writing things I wouldn’t have written otherwise. I’m not much of a piano player at all, in fact I think I really should get better at it. Overall the ambition was to write simple songs that didn't hide behind any instrumentation or fancy production. The chunkiness and plainness of my piano playing I think almost emphasises that. 



For about a month or so I (almost) wrote a new song everyday. That process really helped me channel the thoughts I had going round in my head and ended up giving me something to do and aim for. It really helped having a sort of schedule. Sometimes I really wasn’t in the mood to write anything but once I would start I would enjoy the experience. At the time it was one of the few things that I could be in control of and slowly day-by-day seeing the list of songs grow spurred me onwards. What also really helped was listening to these songs back over and over on my daily walks. 

You can listen to all the songs I wrote in this period on my demo Bandcamp page (Parachute Turds) but I think the ones I put on this album all form a cohesive whole and work as a narrative. A simple narrative of a person’s inner thoughts while they sit on their bedroom balcony watching the sunrise. The room in witch I wrote these songs has a balcony and I took all the atmospheric and nature sounds found in these songs from there.

It is probably a bit of a sad record but it’s also a contemplative and mediative one. It’s the barest and most minimal out of all the Parachute Word’s catalogue but there are some songs in this collection that I am really happy I wrote and I hope you can enjoy them too.