The album as a medium has always been important to me. I know that’s pretty old school these days, but that’s what resonates with us. We ended up with the eleven songs that became Some Still Morning. It’s quieter than anything we’ve done before, and that’s okay. Along the way, we worked really hard to try and capture the feeling of the morning, when everything, including your mind is quiet…when the sun is just starting to come up, and you’re able to see everything around you with clarity and warmth. Some Still Morning feels to me like a record with no motive.

I’ve learned to better compartmentalize different parts of my life. I still want to continue making music for the rest of my life, but I now refuse to let that drive me away from what made me love making music in the first place. All of those things...the worries of how the record will be received, about whether or not I’ll be able to sustain a career in music and continue creating full time, or whether I’ll step away and turn music once again into a personal pursuit as it was before 2014…all of those things feel very real now that the record is done.

But unlike how I felt at the end of Welcome Back, I don’t feel the need to force anything. I’m really proud of how Some Still Morning turned out. We made a record that I’m truly proud of. I’m excited to get back in the studio and start making music again. We’ve made the record we wanted to make. Whatever comes next is bonus, and there’s no better feeling than freedom than that.