Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Here's my new album: Goodbye, for Now. I hope you like it!

~ ✧ ~ credits ~ ✧ ~

Vocals and bridge lyrics on "Nico": @MatthewGuerra
Everything else: Me

~ ✧ ~ special thanks ~ ✧ ~

I want to thank Matt, Anthony, Chris, Igi, AJ, Chris L., Jesús, Alex, Stevie, Raayo, Evan, and all my wonderful friends and family who have supported me throughout the creation of this album. And of course, thank you to my grandfather Eugene Heinrich (Papaw), none of this would've been possible without him.

~ ✧ ~ timestamps ~ ✧ ~

0:00 Haha I'm Emo
4:22 Sticky
8:02 Broken
11:59 Encased in Ice
16:24 Piano Simp
18:17 Nico ft. Matthew Guerra
22:12 Goodbye, for Now

~ ✧ ~ about the album ~ ✧ ~

I started working on Goodbye, for Now on February 3rd, about a month before my metal album Red came out on March 2nd.

I'd been doing some random vocal stuff for some projects with Chris Allen Hess and Nah Tony, and that inspired me to do some more. I thought it'd be cool to make an album with a focus on vocals, whether that be poppier vocals like in that of "Haha I'm Emo" or more ambient/backing stuff like in "Encased in Ice."

But at the beginning, I was planning to have a bunch of different vocalists, rather than just me. I realized though that a lot of the stuff I was writing was catered to my voice and aesthetic. It took a lot of recording over and over again, but eventually I got an end result that I was happy with.

Pretty late into the album, I started working on that "Nico" song. It kinda ruined everything. I originally intended to have my vocals on it, but then I would record and it would sound terrible: like really bad lol. I also tried playing the melody on guitar or a square chiptune lead or something. Nothing was working, everything sounded terrible and I couldn't figure out why.

There was a span of a couple months where I honestly wanted to just scrap "Nico" and the album as a whole. But later I was talking with Matt and he offered to sing on it. The rest is history. Matt nailed it, saved "Nico," and saved the album in the process. I think Matt did a fantastic job and I think his performance really ties the whole album together.

I was able to get really personal on this album and I think that's cool. I hope you like it.

Goodbye, for Now.

~ ✧ ~ thanks for watching / listening ~ ✧ ~