Orbitron (EP)

Orbitron is my second EP. It was released on April 20, 2022. It contains some of the first original songs I've ever written, plus one cover song.

Pre-recording
I had been experimenting with writing songs since March 2021; I had some joke songs that I partially wrote called "Monkey in the Bathroom" and "Small Banana" from then, but I had never gotten around to writing a full song until I wrote "Serpentes" in December. The idea to make an album came when I recorded my covers of "Scenester Fabulous" and "Harmonize" by USS. The original title for this album was Beginning, and would have songs called "Beginning," and "End" at the beginning and the end of the album respectively. I later decided to make it an EP instead because I didn't have enough material for an album by that point. Throughout January, I wrote several songs, such as "The Beginning of the End," and "Gold Digger." During that time, I decided to not give the EP a title but to instead self-title it.

Recording process
The way I wrote songs at this time was that I'd make the entire instrumental for a song and then write the lyrics after. This was quite a tedious process but this meant I got songs done much quicker. On January 24, I recorded "Serpentes" and released it as a single the next day. It was received positively on release. By March, I had written a few more songs, such as "Thanatophobia" (albeit an early version which would become "Young Love (Isn't Real Love)"). "Gold Digger" and "Feel Like" were recorded during this time as well. By the end of March, I had a list of 8 or so songs I wanted to be on the EP. I only ended up using around 3 of them. I rerecorded "Scenester Fabulous" to sound more appropriate for an EP and I remixed Serpentes because I didn't like the original mix. Around this time, I almost scrapped "Gold Digger" in place of a cover of "Drop Around the Clock" by USS before realizing that having 2 covers on a 6 track EP wouldn't work. On April 19, I recorded "Thanatophobia" and released it as a single just 4 hours before I released the EP on April 20. I specifically chose April 20th as a release date to be tongue-in-cheek; 4/20 being a status symbol for marijuana smoking.