leaping

don't always look

Hello everyone

(please enjoy this amazing track)

I started writing this post on leap day, hence the title, but it still remains relevant and I’d like to touch base here and give a bit of an update.

Some things on the cal for 2024:

• Make a new Florist record (it’s almost entirely written)

• Make a new Emily solo record (I have done at least a dozen drafts of this and I’m figuring out how to believe in the work/love it)

• Don’t play very many shows

• Do play a full band show in Boston (sorry Boston for the last 3 years)

• Make a photo book

• Leave my 20s

I have been observing and enjoying a quiet wintering these last couple of months. I notice now that there is suddenly so much coming alive. Every year this mirroring with nature amazes and delights me.

I am almost finished writing a new Florist record. Something which hasn’t happened for a little while now! As I narrow in on 15 years of songwriting I can still never truly believe that I will write again while I am in a period of refilling my well. These cycles can be long, sometimes years. I still play around and make a lot during this time but it is not defined for me personally as a new body of work. Not something that feels significant enough for a release and the use of many human life forces to bring to life. Over the last 6 months or so I finally began writing what I know is a new organism for our little band. I’m so excited. It’s weird to feel so young and at the same time feel like I have said the same thing so many different times. I still want to find new ways to say it. Sorry if that sounds like a humble brag, it really isn’t meant to be. I am overall just very neutral about the contribution and value of my own life. Like, I’d be totally fine giving it all up and becoming moss.

I’m on social media almost as often as when logging into AIM on my family’s desktop computer was a thing. Which is cool. When I started writing songs there was no such this as a note app or a video camera / mic on a computer. I recently moved away from notes app and voice recording on my phone to a pen and paper and a standalone audio recorder not connect to the internet. Mostly because I am getting too paranoid about AI somehow learning my songs as I am workshopping them. It feels good. I am definitely getting older. It feels good.

As always there is no way to know what is in store for us, collectively or individually, in this new year. I genuinely wish for humanity to get healthier. I don’t focus too much on tackling this as a whole and instead try to make positive changes in my tiny life that may ripple outward. Right now it feels like the more private path is the one I need to be on. This may change, who knows. Anyway I am so excited to get to share new music in 2025, and hopefully something toward the end of this year (yeah sorry it takes a long time!!).

<3

Will likely have some cute Florist recording pics to post in the next few months.

-mle