Changing Too Quickly

‘Changing Too Quickly’ is my second album, initially released in March of 2021. It was conceived during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when my final year of highschool was cut short and I suddenly had time to write. I wrote and recorded the music for the album independently, and my girlfriend-turned-writing-partner Nefeli Vitoraki helped me write the lyrics. We worked on the album in various places over the course of a year, starting in my home in Athens, before moving to the island of Hydra to set up a primitive studio to record vocals and guitars. I added the finishing touches and mixed the album in my freshman dorm at Stanford University while in quarantine. 

The songs on the album showcase our journey of navigating through our relationship while being forced to stay apart. The songs touch on the anxiety caused by the pandemic, and the ways in which the pandemic exacerbated our existing concerns. Nefeli used the album as a device to cope with her parents’ recent divorce, while I reckoned with the loss of both my grandfathers, who passed just before we started to work on the album. 

The instrumentation of the songs reflect the emotions we felt during lockdown, with droning, repetitive and crushing songs like ‘Leaving’ mirroring the mundane grey days that never seemed to pass, or with songs that suddenly explode like ‘The Woods’ reflecting the build-up of anxieties we felt. ‘Let me Distract Myself’ is political song, which speaks about trying to process a million things at once, and trying to understand how to find optimism in a world that is doomed to fail. 

Despite the darker moments on the album, it ends on a hopeful note, with the closing track ‘Rebuild’, rising into a driving crescendo, demonstrating how although times are tough, better days are yet to come. 

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