d’ville
[2022] A collection of song-stories from a small town where dark secrets appear in half-remembered dreams…
indie-rock
n0va
[2017] n0va is a 4-song EP of bossa nova grooves specially crafted for your breaking heart. Where pop songs often draw breakups in black and white, bossa…
starfish lips
starfish lips is an indie-pop song at the intersection of melancholy and cute. Written in 3rd-grade level Korean, it is about learning how to…
see
‘See,’ is the follow up to aerochute from my bossa nova infused EP n0va. Although its dreampop atmosphere lacks that signature…
aerochute
I won’t pretend to be a historical expert on bossa nova, but where I can draw powerful parallels is that literally translated, ‘bossa nova’…
b3nd3r
Just as houses like 16:16 haunted the music, the asbestos shingled hovel at 295 Beacon street in Somerville, Massachusetts (or as some of…
B3ND3R: We Were the Young Americans
“You have to lose that fake British accent.” Stephen Bender had a penchant for calling out any kind of pretension. It was 1995 and he…
40 Days: Songs and Suicide
Maybe the new year isn’t the best time to breach the topic of suicide. Then again if Robin Williams’s tragic death taught us something it’s that…
going dry
Many failed attempts at writing a ‘dry’ song on guitar and voice revealed my bad technique. So I turned my back on the gilded god of reverb, bowed and gazed at my shoes like any…