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about this album
I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to write a love song for a long time. No matter which way I construed it, it seemed forced. At best, they were totally cheesy. At worst, they were vapid and loose. Somewhere in between is where I spent weeks writing american spirit: every song was a selfish reminder of things I had put myself through because I was afraid to let anyone in. But then I figured it out. I stopped looking so hard and I just let it find me. I did what I never thought I could do: I fell in love. I let someone else become what I previously had claimed to be mine and mine alone. After months of separating myself from everything around me, I decided I wanted to be part of something greater, and soon after, the songs started to form. I became less of a mess and more of a benefit. I figured out how to love myself while I was figuring out how to love another person. I guess it’s like they say: you can’t write about what you haven’t experienced. And after experiencing it firsthand, I couldn’t write about anything else. Each song on love bites categorizes the emotions synonymous with falling in love: fear, uncertainty, doubt, confusion, beauty, fulfillment, acceptance, etc. The spectrum is horrifying, yet alluring; shaky, yet sturdy; complicated, yet simplifying. And although this album is in no way about sex, I found the significance of the phrase ‘love bites' so fascinating; I discovered that people leave marks on one another, sometimes unknowingly. Even if there aren’t
