Harmless & Twin Cabins - Springs Eternal (2024) Hi Res

Springs Eternal is a record about trying to connect with my younger self after feeling split due to a gruesome accident.

Since my accident, I’ve struggled to reconnect with myself and who I was before it. The trauma of my near-death experience made me feel distant from my identity, and contending with new disabilities and limitations made it all the more difficult to connect with my past. To bridge this gap and rediscover my younger self, I spent the last year making a record in the style of who I was prior to the trauma that changed my life.

To achieve the style and sound of my past work, I set limitations during the writing process to ensure authenticity by using only the instruments, effects, and software I had access to in my early career. I wrote every song in my small office-turned-home studio, and restricted myself to about a week’s worth of writing per song, abandoning ideas that took longer, much as I did in my early 20s. Finally, after months of hard work and 11 songs done to my satisfaction, I mixed and produced the album with Yves Rothman at Sunset Sound in 9 days. I pushed myself as I would have, and paid for it physically, sometimes to the point of tears, but we did it, and I could not be more proud of the result.

For the most part, everything in Springs Eternal replicates how I used to operate except for the intimate details and subject matter. I strived to make these new songs a discussion with my past, the topics being things I’d love to tell my past self about – like my marriage, my relationship with my father, or my feelings about the music industry as a whole. I wanted to feel like I could use music to reach past a barrier formed by trauma and connect with everything I used to be. Throughout this process, I’ve tried to be optimistic about that feeling and the connection I’ve made. As the saying goes, “Hope springs eternal.

Anyways… I feel like I accomplished what I sought to achieve in these 11 songs. It’s been a deeply emotional experience to make this a reality, and I am thrilled to share it with the world and with who I was.