SomeGirls 2025, SomeOne 2014

My 2014 release was an accidental title. Originating from the repeating chant of the re-worked, re-hyped, "Good Fight" with its refrain "some girls..." etc, I came to it riding my bike through Central Park. As a rule, I rarely cross check inspiration with the internet, instead holding to the heights of creation rather than the punishment of derivation. Only Raymond Russell (IG @stringkill) whose bass graces most of the record was erudite enough to call my attention to the Rolling Stones, well after art, promo trailer and actresses were in the can. Lucky for me you can't copyright a title.

Many cards of my life were shuffled completing this project in the years spanning 2008-2013. A geographic shift from Tucson to New York. A change of producers from Kelly Dolan to Felix McTeigue. An aesthetic move toward pop-forward, poetics-down. A decade thereafter I see 2014 as a karmic lilypad. That is to say I had made many choices by vision or guidance or accident or failure or all of the above and the album became the resting spot for those choices. It seemed appropriate to bundle my effort and tie it in a pretty pink bow. (Cover designer Meghan Dewar told me she chose her pink from the lipstick of one of my models.)

The BandCamp release today includes some extras. The penultimate version of "Move Mountains," which was barely on the edge of making sense until we cracked the code on how to make a proper pop song. The original version of "Tightrope" produced with Kelly. "Long Way Home"—a song I just didn't have the energy or time to finish but recorded in the Some Girls sessions. A demo of "Sophia" before I wrote in the bridge.

And perhaps the most revealing before/after is the original demo of Good Fight, pre-Felix, pre-New York. Its lyrics are filled with piss and bite, anti-religous institution, anti-consumer, anti-war--very Gen X. I literally listened to this an hour ago and recalled all that I loved about it and all that only Thom Yorke could legitimately pull off. But it is also me at the time, ready to take on everything, ready to move, ready to become someone, somewhere else.