voices you hear from the inside
5/1/2026
im back
graduation is near and i've recently announced a new album called voices you hear from the inside and it's releasing soon.
i really can't say much about it yet but it's something i've spent the better part of almost two years on and it's a very personal project, even if on the surface it doesn't seem like it.
the title does have meaning but i'm not gonna lie and say that it has some bullshit philosophical meaning that only smart people can understand, the meaning of the title is meant to be taken at face value.
i've felt like i've heard voices that aren't real before, especially when i smoked for the first time like i was genuinely hearing voices during that high, however it wasn't particularly scary to me
maybe at first it caught me off guard but it really entranced me and i found it very interesting and i want to try and talk to them. then again, the title of the album came before that high experience so it really comes from
the feeling of paranoia, that's just it. "voices you hear from the inside" equals "the paranoia your mind gives you to fuck with you".
the title of the album definitely changed a LOT over the past 2ish years and i honestly cannot remember the older titles, actually one of them was definitely "death leave no beautiful corpse" which i think is a beautiful title
however i felt that it didn't fit how my music changed from my older styles because i associate that title with a completely different sound of music i was trying.
the title was also influenced by an album i really enjoy called "smile from the streets you hold" by john frusciante. that title always interested me because what does that even mean? what's the real meaning behind that phrase
and where did frusciante get the phrase from? i like that it doesn't have a particular meaning, so i took inspiration from it with its longer weird title, but there actually is a known meaning behind the title of voices.
this album will be the first time i will be singing lead vocals on a project and it's been very difficult for me to get comfortable with my own voice.
i have a noticeable lisp, and although it doesn't turn my "sh's" into "th's", it does make my "ess's" more harsh and sometimes turns them into a "h" sound, like "so" turns into "show" sometimes and hearing it on a recording really bothers me.
i've realized a lot of artists have lisps, especially some of my favorites like frusciante and layne staley, but it's just difficult for me to get over mine, so bear with me if my vocals seemed buried in the mix.
it may seem like a stylistic choice, which it sometimes is, but alot of the times it's because i cannot stand my own voice and am rather embarrased by my inability to speak normally.
it won't be a very long project, i never liked super long projects. i feel like it can take away from the quality of the good tracks if you just have a bunch of padding in the album just to make it longer, so expect like 30-40 minutes.
i'll make a seperate post after the album releases about the musical influences i had whilst making this album, till then have a good day and i'll talk to you next time