Uncollected – Los Angeles

City of glass and sand. A melodic dreamscape at twilight, Los Angeles follows the heart’s loneliness in the midst of a vast metropolis… The freeway shimmering like a blade in the fading light.

As you can imagine from listening to the lyrics, I was going through an especially difficult time. I think in many ways I was hypnotized by a dark area of my psyche that was struggling to stay in control. That dark specter was seductive, its lonely desolation beautiful. There is a certain comfort in self-destruction. We’ve all felt it at one time or another, and at that time I felt its pull getting stronger. The only way to break the spell was to go inside, to follow the path wherever it led… And this album is a record of that journey.

Looking back, I think the pain was familiar, and in a strange way, comforting. I allowed myself to wander through a painful inner landscape and examine it in great detail. A huge fan of Carl Jung, I’m fascinated by the place where the conscious and unconscious minds meet. It can almost be an out-of-body experience when metaphors emerge from the unknown, primal areas of the psyche without any conscious effort. In fact, for me personally, I think the unconscious is a more direct route to genuine thought. I’ve never trusted words. Which I guess is completely crazy for a writer to say.

Tracks

Ticker

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Sweet

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Threads

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Three Things

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Always Something

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We Can’t Run

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Shape of Night

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Loneliest

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Reaction

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Coming Home

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