Stutter by Laryssa Okada
if you'll indulge a moment of my sincerity,
been in a weird place this past year. i think a lot of us have been. there's so much day to day injustice and vitriol that it can feel immaterial to take the time to create art, but i know in my heart that's not true.
for me, writing has always been divided into two camps: my work for games, which is very intentional and calculated; and writing personal music, which has always been a strange, vulnerable, and unknowable thing. it's often been my way of having conversations with myself about the things that live heavy on my mind.
i think stutter is my musical cry about the caustic landscape we live in. it's about finding your way back from a listless feeling of defeat and burnout; appreciating the people we have in our lives and the time that we have with them, even if we're tormented with the fear of one day losing them. it's about the battles we and our loved ones face, sometimes in private, and sometimes together. and how, at the end of the day, we must simply say: alas, here we go!
Tracklist
| 1. | Limbo | 2:22 |
| 2. | Burnout | 2:34 |
| 3. | kirakira✩ | 3:12 |
| 4. | shop!walk!talk! | 2:13 |
| 5. | Soulcrushed | 3:55 |
| 6. | Paradigm Shift | 3:57 |
| 7. | Call Me When You Get Home | 3:44 |
| 8. | Sacred | 2:59 |
| 9. | Letter to Yesterday | 3:26 |
| 10. | Stutter | 3:20 |
| 11. | Yuzu | 5:30 |
| 12. | Alas, Here We Go (feat. Throno Crigger) | 3:47 |
Credits
all songs written & produced & sung by Laryssa Okada
all songs mixed & mastered by Nick Calapine
lyrics written in collaboration with REN on burnout, kirakira, soulcrushed, sacred, stutter, and alas here we go
album artwork by cherry✟ (aletiune) in collaboration with Sasha E Head on visual/graphic design
instrumentalists on burnout -
guitars by Alex Abraham
drums by Aaron Kiser
bass by Paxson Helgesen
alas, here we go was written with the help of Throno Crigger: thronocrigger.bandcamp.com
vocalists on Alas, here we go (feat. Throno Crigger) -
Angelina Park, Brad Backofen, D'anthoni Wooten, Gaby Pulcinelli, Gisula, Marly Koven, Nadia Wheaton, Paxson Helgesen, Plusol, and Taylor Beebe
