In late high school I had a bit of a drinking problem that came with negative experiences like self hatred and mental fatigue. These altered states fueled my creativity and became the vague concepts behind the songs I was making. I thought of the title for the eventual album when I was hungover at school in 11th grade looking in a mirror and heard a voice in my head say “This is a very important time in your life”. I recently started reworking these songs that were left mostly untouched for at least two and a half years; it’s kind of a grab bag time capsule of material and concepts to polish and expand on. The main ideas behind this project have changed a lot now that I’m a different person and have a different life than I did when the melodies were composed. Themes include not trusting myself, loneliness, and also the absence of those things / the dichotomy of how I experienced those things then vs. now.