A year ago I was focused 100% on social media. Posting at least three times a week, creating content that I really believed in (still do even if it’s hidden) and connecting with some really awesome people. I was finally starting to see some growth but something was off in the back of my mind and I wanted to flip my approach. I was dabbling in a number of diversified genres and styles. All highly influential to me and my personal style, and I felt like I could be satisfied blending a smorgasbord of sounds creating something “new”. This is when I decided to take a step back and sort my ideas. I felt like I was getting distracted and lost in side quests. Creating content all the time prevented me from being able to complete songs. I decided to realign my priorities.
First, I had to really decide what I want Meanue to be. When I started Meanue I didn’t really have the idea or even the ability to pull what I was thinking and make it reality. I shied away from creating “band” music because my ego thought it inauthentic. And then I went through a period of grief and self discovery that changed my life and I injected all that into my first project Mortal Coil. I love that album, what it means to me and I am more proud of that album than anything I have done up to this point. It allowed me to process things (or begin to) and start the never ending battle that is living with loss and finding some sort of mental wellness while living what is an increasingly depressing cycle called life. I learned many mistakes about life itself, production and process and it was my first try at something truly solo. I had an idea and I made it real and it will always be one of my favorite things. But it is not quite what I want Meanue to be.
I still infuse the diverse influences of mine into this new music, but it’s more defined and cohesive. It traverses the edges of adjacent genres but stays true. It’s Alternative, it’s Emo, it’s Punk. It’s Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, and Screamo, and it has traces of more. It’s sudden and the edges are jagged but it intersects and compliments itself with its methodically structured design. It’s original and it sounds like itself.
Musical directions I would like to explore that don’t fit Meanue still remain. I decided I will be utilizing those in other new projects (TBA), and stay focused on keeping Meanue what it was meant to be. Meanue has always been the bridge from me to you. The place where we can come to unload all the bad and sad shit that consumes us. The place where I can come undone and other loose threads will put me back together forming a common bond. Nothing has changed. These new songs (there are many) are intense, and beautiful. Sometimes charming, and sometimes uncomfortable. Little pieces of everything that makes us human, and I can’t fucking wait for you to hear them.