PRINTS // “Come and Go (feat. The KickDrums)”
Friends!
I am proud to announce the unveiling of my new project, PRINTS. I have been hard at work on it for nearly two years, and I am so incredibly happy to finally be sharing it. I have outlined the mission statement and will be debuting each piece over at www.prints.fm, but in a nutshell, it’s an ongoing series of singles, remixes, videos, and artwork – I refer to each collective work as a “print.”
For each “print,” I first write an instrumental piece and then collaborate with a different vocalist, sometimes together in my studio, and sometimes back and forth via the web, until each “print” takes its shape. The goal is to draw both myself and my collaborators out of our comfort zones, in the hopes of pushing each “print” to new and unexpected heights.
For the first “print,” I collaborated with Alex Fitts of The KickDrums. As some of you may remember, I co-produced The KickDrums’ recent album, “Meet Your Ghost” for Last Gang Records.
We called the song “Come and Go,” and I can safely say that it is one of my favorite recordings I’ve ever made. The song premiered over at Consequence of Sound the other day!
Musically, I wanted to explore the common space between extreme opposites, and specifically in two ways: 1) I wanted to create something that felt simultaneously in slow-motion and hyper-speed, and 2) something that felt hard-hitting – like a punch to the gut – while still feeling uplifting and positive. Lyrically, Alex would be the better man to ask as he wrote the lyrics… but the big themes I take away from it are doing whatever you want, following your heart and not worrying about the consequences.
There’s been a HUGE response to it so far, and I couldn’t be happier. We hit #1 on Hypemachine’s Twitter Chart earlier this week, and as I’m writing this, we’re currently #30 on Hypemachine’s Most Popular Chart, and #45 on Elbo.ws “Hot Tracks!”
You can stream the song by clicking on the artwork above, or check out its page on the PRINTS site.
Lastly, here’s a DOWNLOAD LINK – please feel free to share it far and wide!
Thanks, and stay tuned for more PRINTS.
A
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