Truenorths has the odd fortune of having been made in a day and over the course of many unending months at the same time; it arose from an improv session with @moogre_ that we thankfully recorded, for the essence and animic depth was already captured then and ripe for harvesting through some of the most calculated and exacting work I have undertaken as a producer, vocalist and lyricist (though it is true that most of the lyrics came about by way of a stream-of-thought demo recording that was merely refined later on), and that @apapachestudio has done as a recording, mixing and mastering engineer.
Truenorths is, to me, also a bookending piece, the final component of a triptych comprised by it, The Compass and Insurmountable Distances; thematically, its reach spans the psychological freefall of 2020, the discovery of sex and altered realities, and the multiple anticlimactic banalities and apathies of emancipation. In keeping with the nature of its making, Truenorths is intensely calculated and vulnerable, built almost entirely on contradictions. Every truenorth, then, understood through its opposing cardinal; the limitlessnesses of life understood through the confines of an apartment ceiling.

Of course, no project would be complete without select friends and collaborators to aid me: Aside from Johnny's precise and considered work in the mixing and mastering departments as @apapachestudio, he was an integral part of its creation as @moogre_, having played synth parts throughout, and the driving force behind pursuing this piece to its conclusion; without his insistence and vision, Truenorths would likely have remained a stillborn idea gathering dust on a hard drive. @taraberex took the miraculous photograph that would later become the cover artwork, tying the project together with its appropriate visual counterpart. @streetnmore further helped with the visual component of this new era by following me around the streets of Bratislava with her camera in hand.