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Okayfine

A combination of emo-tinged lyrics, spacious guitar work, and hard-hitting refrains, Okayfine is a prog-rock experiment of mine.

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OKF Featured


Okayfine

A combination of emo-tinged lyrics, spacious guitar work, and hard-hitting refrains, Okayfine is a prog-rock experiment of mine.

Spotify Bandcamp

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ambition met reality

Okayfine began when I realized I actually did have the capacity to focus my intent with music. When I was young, I had this ridiculous ambition to create everything, all the time. I’ve made retro-groove, bad EDM, metalcore, prog, and post-rock, beside a host of half-finished ideas I lost focus on and shelved indefinitely. A lot of that is still available on my SoundCloud, and still more was never given the light of day. No concrete vision, no fulfillment. I just wasn’t aware of that.

Then, years passed, and I faced my mental illness head on more completely every day. Before I really knew what I was doing, I was pulling elements of 90s emo and new midwest emo into my historically prog-styled production, and it was the first time it wasn’t incredibly difficult to begin a creation and reach realization. I still battled myself even to finish the inspired works, but I had vision, and it was a much better outlet than caustic self-loathing.

The product of that paradigm shift should culminate in full-length releases starting in 2021. It’ll be a decade in the making, wasted time and all.


OKF Bandcamp Shop

Apart from streaming on Spotify, you can buy "Harville" directly from me at the new Okayfine shop.

All my future releases, while being available for listening on all streaming platforms, will be posted for sale on Bandcamp in any format you want, often at any price you want. That also means that eventually, the same shop will sell physical copies and merchandise. Tell me you wouldn't look good with that typography logo on your t-shirt.

And of course, it would be awesome to see my music show up in your collections.


Live with Girl Clothes at the Caledonia Lounge on April 4, 2019

Live with Girl Clothes at the Caledonia Lounge on April 4, 2019

My Sentiments Exactly

I've never been very good at writing lyrics. There have been nights that I bolted upright in bed with an idea, yet sat there for upwards of three hours struggling to form the perfect lines. Yet, the poetry I find best is always finished in half an hour.

"Harville" is where this whole project started. Head spinning and resentful for most of 2014, I realized I needed an outlet built specifically for the less popular topics of conversation I still had to process. So I took the style I'd been using with Reid Craft in Housefire Melody and adapted it for that purpose.

I cut the whole song in my bedroom with a laptop running Studio One and a single guitar amp. Even wrote the drum parts on a keyboard. All these years later, the process behind this song still seems blisteringly fast to me.

I believe the best inspiration is your original experience. And I also believe music is possibly the best way to express ponderings or emotion, either lyrically or sonically, respectively. So I use it to stop the worst of it festering, and help the rest of it to make sense. That's about the best anyone could do.