Heaven - Single

Honey, no offense, but you didn’t even try.

Hi all! I am back, after almost two years of relative silence. I promise that, during that time, I was working on other things.

Namely, my lovely and good friends, State Parque, put out an album last year. I engineered and produced their album, which was a lot of fun. The boys were wonderful to work with, so if you want to check out their work, they just put out a music video for their song “Climb.”

After Juliana and State Parque, I needed to spend a moment and catch my breath. Between work and grad school, I was re-evaluating my life a little bit.

But all last summer, I began playing at an open mic locally, showing them old songs and trying out some new ones. I also did some traveling, going to Utah, Nevada, and the California desert. The trip culminated into a trip to Joshua Tree, where I got to see the unpolluted night sky. This moment, looking up at the sky and seeing the hundreds of stars, so many stars, I suddenly realized how comfortable I had gotten seeing only a few every night in the Big City. I felt this unbelievable judgement press down into me. “Why don’t you care? Why aren’t you trying?”

All summer, I thought about the night sky, and the judgemental question reverberating in my head. I thought about the stress that giant stadium lights had on electrical grids. I thought about the brief moment I saw an aurora in Boston, only visible through my iPhone, and not with my own eyes.

This bothered me. And slowly, Heaven took shape. It was rewritten five times, until I found the right tenor to start off this next era of music from Touring Saturn. Heaven is a warning. It’s a warning from thinking that everything easy will always be easy. It’s a warning from thinking that love and care is just that initial happy feeling. It’s a warning from thinking you don’t have to try. You do have to try.

There’s more where this came from. For now, I hope you like Heaven. It’s a little taste of what’s to come.

Stream Heaven wherever streaming occurs.