Alex Walker Alex Walker

11.18.2021

Whoa the post - single - release crash is real yall haha, after such a build up in one’s heart to finally cross that finish line to where it has been birthed. Fully out there in the world, replete with the high feeling of accomplishment coupled with the physical relaxation from the loosened grip of determination. And now oddly, this piece of ephemera that you’ve spun around a million times isn’t only your’s anymore. It mingles and flirts, making itself comfortable in others’ lives as well.

I look at this first single differently than say last month, where nightly rounds of playing it 10x’s on repeat was commonplace. Testing it for its delivery of raw power, probing for inaccuracies in vibe or shade. Today I regard this 2 minutes and 45 seconds of bursting emotion as something else, a jellyfish-like blob floating undetected everywhere, ready to be activated at a swipe of the thumb. My analysis is over, I can now enjoy it again.

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Alex Walker Alex Walker

Elevate.

Searching for mantras, looking for meaning, peeling the skin back, having a looksie under the hood. Demanding more from ourselves in a time where everywhere you turn there is some kind of energy drain. Some noble, some obligatory and even some necessary, but many that leave you nowhere with 0% left in the tank, and Trenton is still twenty miles away.

So the need to elevate comes into focus. The morning rituals allow things to reveal themselves a lot easier than trying to summon the future over brunch at noon. I’ve been examining my life and looking for places to elevate. A cpl years ago i was all about '“leveling up”, and that helped me immensely at the time, where I was able to utilize morning pages from the Artists Way, and quite literally write myself out of the life I was leading, and into an entirely new life in the course of 2 years.

Having gone thru that, I am now a little more attuned to nuance when working on myself, and find the term that I was using too broad for what I am attempting today. So “elevate” is what I’m going with now. Mostly in the idea that I can take what I have and make it better, as opposed to ‘level up’ that I think supposes an entirely new outlook. Elevating my breakfast, creative work, cooking, exercise regime, to how I treat the people around me, all of those aspects need an additional helping of care and effort. I am so eager to see the results that I don’t mind the uncomfortable place I will inevitably find myself in while I adjust to that new space.

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Alex Walker Alex Walker

We have arrived.

The album is done. Our long form vision of music is now realized. The previous singles released over the last few years have hinted at a style, a shade, a particular point in the modern gradient, but too small in mass to impress upon the quantum field. This LP is an arrival and a departure: one foot pushing off toward the next lap. The 43:00 running time provides a breach in what was, and what will be. This style probably won’t be employed again, not for any lack in oomph or resonance. For the ever-blossoming flower, each petal veers and careens toward its own important identity.

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