About The Art of Life Album

I wrote and recorded an album that was wrested from sleepless nights and numbing days walking through the static of modern life. The Art of Life is about the trials of the human experience and learning to live well in a digital age where the machinery of modern life dazzles and distracts with its empty efficiency, and too “on the nose” marketing at every turn.

These songs aren’t polished lessons. They’re raw fragments, stitched together in sound with torn edges, rough seams, moments caught as they were felt. They circle the questions that follow us everywhere: how easily we confuse our work with our identity, how love restores us while hollow pursuits drain us, how war and greed twist the spirit, how memory and loss shadow every step, and how forgiveness and self-love might be the only true freedom.

Even as children, our days begin with a plunge of into alarms, commutes, paychecks, schedules, and longing. Along the road into adulthood we will touch love and joy, feel the fever of rebellion, experience the exile of integrity, the ache of loss, and notice the thin line between intimacy and escape. And in the end, I hope we all find their way back not to a role, not to the screen glowing in our hands, but to the inner light that we should allow no distraction to extinguish.

I’m not sure how to describe the sound... perhaps vulnerable folk-noir tangled with unruly indie rock energy? Whatever we try to label it, I am deeply grateful for the collaboration with Greg Miller who elevated these songs with his musicianship. His guitar became its own unique character within in each song. I am grateful to Pierre Ferguson who worked to capture the many characters that my weird voice threw at him and was a true sonic collaborator every step of the way. Gratitude to James Brownlee for bringing an avante garde touch and sensibility to the drums, to Julie Van der Meyden, my real life friend, for playing the ride or die on many of the tracks with her backing vocals, and to Terri Day for helping us light up The Road.

Each song was written and recorded with the hope that somewhere in its grit or grace, its heartbreak or hope, you might hear your own story echoed back.

Thank you for listening, These songs belong to you now.

Sincerely, L.

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