My First Album – Skin Pink Outfit February 22nd, 2010
Finally after nearly 3 months of going into the studio, Brandon and I finished the Skin Pink Album. It wasn’t a stressful process at all, as it has been in the past when I went into the recording studio with my previous band, Paperhouse. The recording process is a very robust emotional experience that entails frustration, love, hate and competition. It taking everything that want, and setting it in stone.
Brandon and I have been friends since mid-high school, but only recently did we start playing music together. We each, for the most part of our friendship, had our own respective bands, and rarely, if not ever, played together. About a year ago, upon a quick visit to Pittsburgn (where Brandon went to college at Dusquesne), we went to a Bob Dylan show and wrote our first song together named “Drink It Quick”. An experimental country tune, I think we both realized that maybe we could make something together that was unique, yet completely accessible even to the popy-ist ears.
This experimental pop, if you will, matched our personalities perfectly, as well as our conventions in songwriting respectfully. I am more of a pop writer. I have never found interest in experimental sounds. To me, anyone can sit down and make sounds that sometimes, out of pure luck, produce a song that sounds interesting or really conveys a powerful emotional response. Now in pop music, and by pop music I mean music that makes you want to tap your foot, dance, sing out loud and is so accessible it appeals to every audience. I do not mean music that is produced by major labels with tons of production and requires almost no intelligence to create. Ok, off that tangent and back to pop music. Pop music, to me, has the unique ability to touch some kind of inner part of us that appeals to everyone in some profound way and is at the same time insanely creative. I love that. That is what I want to create, listen and ponder when it comes to music.
Brandon, on the hand, takes all of this one step further. He is an experimentalist. A crazy man who throughs himself into a black hole of originality, and comes out perfectly understandable to those who are willing to listen. Yes, sometimes it comes off as abrasive. But almost all of the time, it is deep and relatable, and makes you either laugh or cry. And I mean these things in the best possible way. He is by far and away, the most original and creative individual I know. And when it comes to music, his experimental side really creates an experience to listen to.
Now when you combine the both of us together, you get our new album. It’s a pop artist, and an experimental veteran of creativity. Boom. Experimental Pop.
The album starts with a straight up rock-punk piece thats about devotion and the absurdity of love. Then goes on to detail a psychedelic paranoia adventure of the anxiety of growing older, back to the timeline of love from knowing how deep it goes to experiencing its end. The lyrics that Brandon wrote, are beautiful. I highly recommend you listen to what its trying to say as much as how it sounds.
I couldn’t be happier with it.


