Sojourn

Two souls separate, yet intertwined by fate. Overcoming life’s obstacles and insecurities, both within and without. Finding inner strength through adversity, relearning and redefining through community and interaction. A journey through the mind, finding keys to the soul.

We started this beat over a year before its release, as one of our Audius “Beat A Week” songs. We then wrote the lyrics after lots of late night conversations, soul-searching, and introspection together. We wanted to tell a story, loosely based on us and our own experiences, but not entirely accurately us… more the embodiment of these experiences. One escaping an uncaring, unloving and abusive situation; the other seeking guidance and answers to struggles and uncertainty. An interesting time to write this story, in the midst of a global pandemic.

Our intent was for the vocal pace to match the gradually intensifying instrumental, as the story progresses and gets more and more chaotic, until finally reaching its climax and resolution. The whole song is a fun adventure - and that definitely makes it hard to classify, because we pretty much switch genres with every drop. (And there are quite a few drops throughout the song.) Experimental electropop… maybe?

Either way, this is our favorite song we’ve made thus far, and we’re hella juiced it’s finally seeing the light of day! We worked pretty hard on this for a while, and we’re super grateful to everyone who helped us along the way. Thanks for listening fam, hope you enjoy the trip.