"Whatever's Lost in the Transition from Analog to Digital" is a bit of a lengthy name. This is the first album I've ever made. If you think about it, olazul actually made Vista Point, not me.

This is the first songs I ever put vocals to. For pretty much all of my life, my voice sucked shit. But I'm lucky enough have worked in an environment where my excuses for singing were tolerated, and now I can say my vocal ability is pretty good. Good enough to make an album with it. This album is not an example of that.

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This album cover was done by rekkometal. I commissioned the art piece a good 6 months or something like that before the album came out. Twitter recommended me her work at some point in 2023(?), and I'd been keeping tabs on her work since. I knew from the moment I saw what she could do that it fit perfectly with the kind of aesthetic I wanted for this album. I paid for two frames of animation, and told her to just wing it and make some kind of sketch thing.

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she used to live here is the opening track on the album. It is also the second to last song I worked on for the album. It's a "cover" of Merle Haggard's Fool's Castle.

There's not a whole lot that I changed from the original song to this one. Rather than using the first verse, I used the second one. I swapped around a few words here and there to make things flow better. To me, the phrase "She used to live here" is so much more impactful than "There's a big house", you feel me?

I also changed the "lives inside" part at the end to "lived inside". It helps set up the rest of the album as an open-ended question.

This isn't a concept album per se, but I wanted that theme of emptiness and failure to define the tone of each song.

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