This album is my own personal rite of passage. It is messy and imperfect and a document of a two year labor of love, a time of reflecting, reevaluating, and a lot of learning.

During the early fall of 2020, Jake and I had found that we were both going through a similarly significant period of creative stagnation and uncertainty. So, in late September of that year, we decided to hold each other accountable to writing and producing our own individual albums and seeing them through to the very end. Two solitary endeavors, pursued side by side. Each week we would virtually check in on each other’s progress and give feedback and encouragement, from songwriting, to demos, to mixes and masters. “The Workshop,” as we called it, continued steadily on for two years until our albums were finally finished in late June of 2022. The time it took us to complete this project shows how difficult the process was for us, but finishing feels like a big achievement. These are DIY albums in every sense of the word. This music would not exist without Jake, so I dedicate this album to him. And also to my loving Megan, who many of these songs are about! Listen to Jake’s (really good!) album here.

— Derick Evans

All songs written by Derick Evans

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Drums performed and recorded by Jacob Peter

Additional Backing Vocals on Track 3 by Jacob

Additional Backing Vocals on Tracks 8, 9, 10 by Megan Cavanaugh

Everything else performed and recorded by Derick

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Mixed and mastered by Derick

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Album art by Megan