12/12/2023
*For the next 24 hours the album 'Not Even a Cup of Tea' is available on Bandcamp for $10, as opposed to the usual $12.*
So my friend and I have been discussing lately the various metrics by which a person might measure success. Societal success, financial success (which let’s face it are pretty close to being the same thing), personal and creative growth, clarity of vision and execution… There are so many ways to define what success means at different times in your life, in a variety of contexts.
Now, I can say fairly objectively almost a month after the release of ‘Not Even a Cup of Tea’ that it’s a commercial non-starter, thus far. By any reasonable standard of monetary valuation, it is not, thus far, a hit. Or even a tap really. Thankfully that is not my primary motivation for, well, anything. Also, and this is not for nothing, I don’t have a manager or a record label or any external entity breathing down my neck saying ‘Get out there and sell, you bastard! Why are you such a failure?’.
Would I like people to hear the album? Of course. I didn’t make it for no one to hear it.
Fortunately the major metric, far more important to me, is do I think I made a good album? And the answer to that is, absolutely I do. And that’s really why I want people to hear it, because I think it’s fun and weird and I get a kick out of singing those songs. I think it’s different from anything I’ve done before and it’s been inspiring to try something that feels new. It’s really opened up a whole new aspect to what I think I’m capable of, and I could cry into my wine glass about sales and call it a failure, but I don’t believe that it is.
So I’ll keep plugging away, making videos and doing promo, booking shows, and I think it will find its audience. And if it doesn’t, y’know what, the world won’t end.
14 track album
