Music came later. It stuck though.
I didn’t grow up playing music, but once I started, it became a place I've kept returning to.
These days, music is where I work things out without needing to know how I'm going to explain them later. I write, record, mix, and release everything myself, partly because I enjoy the process and partly because I like knowing exactly how a song came to feel the way it does. I love the process.
The moments I care most about are the small, easy to miss ones. The moment when a song finally feels settled, and nothing is asking for attention anymore. Being able to return to that feeling later, just by pressing play, never really gets old.
Discography
2020
As If We’d Forgotten
My favorite song on this album is probably Not Me. The final version ended up being the demo I had recorded and set aside, always thinking it needed more... but each time I came back, I'd fall in love all over again.
2017
Mistakes Were Made
9 out of the 11 songs on this album were written and recorded in my spare bedroom during one-week sprints. Each Friday, I'd have a mini-release, share the latest song with my friends, and then furiously begin work on the next one. That was a fun couple months.
2011
Songbird
Songbird was recorded with a cheap microphone, a borrowed guitar, and a copy of Audacity that I didn't know the first thing about using - and it shows, it definitely shows. But even still, there's a sincerity to these recordings that I think perfectly encapsulates what it meant to be Mark at 24.
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