It’s hard to say! I think I have a very different interpretation of what my music sounds like because I’m the only person who knows all of the influences. I make music in my bedroom, so one could reduce it to ‘bedroom pop,’ but I try to push what that can be, and what I can achieve with the resources I have. I hate being compared to other artists but I think the obvious points of reference are Bon Iver, Perfume Genius and Rostam. This is definitely not one sentence.

I’m not too sure. My parents are not musicians or artists or anything but they did play me a lot of music growing up. The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, ABBA and Bob Dylan were my favourites I think. I started learning classical piano when I was 5 or 6, and only stopped lessons a few years ago. I also played guitar in quite a few bands growing up. I think my passion is self-expression more than anything. If I wasn’t making music, I’d be trying to make films or something else. Music plays such a big part in all of our lives – way more than any other medium.

‘You’ is anyone. Me, my parents, my friends, the audience. The main theme of the project is the interrogation of identity, but I don’t think someone can do that on their own.

I knew that I wanted this project to be direct in both the lyrics and the sound. I always think that the production and mixing of a song should be one part of the story. I Wanna Be Myself or Nothing At All is the most personal, diary-like song I’ve ever written, so I wanted to contrast the emotions of that song with thick bass and gigantic choral vocals.
As the songs in the tracklist become more and more vulnerable, the production does too, I think. Looking back over my playlists that I made for this project, I can see that I was listening to a lot of Alex G, Frank Ocean, The 1975, Perfume Genius, Neil Young and Phoebe Bridgers.

This song was written in COVID-19 lockdown in early-2020 and is pretty much a reflection of what life was like then. I wanted to write the saddest song I’d ever written, and then contrast it with the most upbeat instrumental I’ve ever made. It’s the only flat-out pop song on the record I think, but yeah, if you just read the lyrics acapella it’s so depressing.

The first and final line of the project is "Do you know who you are?" and I always knew that I wanted the question to bookend the project. It’s weird because I think the further I got into making it, the more the initial ‘meaning’ of it changed. I thought that this project was about me coming out and then becoming my ‘truest self’ or whatever, but in real life, I was left with more questions than definitive answers. As soon as you explain yourself to people, they try to box you into something more palatable or something easier to label. It’s 2021 – sexuality is a fluid thing. I don’t ever want to find a label for myself because I know that I’m always changing.

Thank you! People really like that one. The song is about the positive feelings of coming out, and the hook is pretty much saying that I felt like floating away into the sky. I usually hate it when music videos are literal interpretations of the lyrics, but it felt appropriate here. I definitely see myself as more than a musician.
As I said before, if I wasn’t doing this, I’d be doing something else creative. I was a 'filmmaker' long before I even made a beat, and I still watch some of the old short films I made. I love the intersection of film and music, so I think I’ll always be walking that line.

Oh, wow, you guys dug deep. That was just a random collection of beats I made when I was fucking around on Soundcloud. I think that nowadays I take myself a lot more seriously. That might be a bad thing sometimes, but at the end of the day I’m confident in what I make, and why I’m making it. I definitely strive to grow and change. I’m halfway into making the second project, and I already think it’s a huge step up from this first one. If I was 100% content with everything I make, then I wouldn’t be growing.

I hope so, too. I am probably going to celebrate the release by making even more music, to be honest. The second project will be out this year, too. I think it marks a really big step up. Now that I think of it – the FMF! video will be out in mid-February, so that will be fun. I just finished editing it today so I can’t wait for people to see it.