Europa (2020) by Avernon

I do not think I had ever considered being a music producer or songwriter as a hobby until the COVID-19 pandemic shut the whole world down in 2020. In the midst of the global panic, music was really my only friend. I had just moved states for the second time in my life not 6 months before, so I felt really new to my surroundings. The only familiarity I had going for me was binge-playing Minecraft and constantly burying my nose in FL Studio, something I had been doing since I was 12. I felt like I lost my sense of self, given how isolated I was.

After the quarantine was lifted and my emotions returned to a new normal, I looked back at my hard drive and realized that I had an album’s worth of material between all of the demos I had composed. Putting it out all these years later is my form of self-acceptance and appreciation for my younger self, even if my methods of creating have completely shifted. A solid 60% of the music in this album is a first or second draft from 2020, and around 40% of those drafts I later rerecorded in summer 2023.

The full compilation is out January 30. Thank you so much.

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