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Home For The Moment

by Julien Chang

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Home For The Moment 03:03
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Home for the moment And tidying up Dwelling on kindnesses I owe I've recently taken to doing things slow Stuck but not steadfast It seems that I must Mediate ruthlessness with shame The light at the end of the tunnel’s to blame It must be the eye of an oncoming train Home for the moment But hardly at rest Held by a bitterness to mend I'll get better soon but I can't tell you when Recovery covers me over again I don't want to look but I can't close my eyes I'll keep faith in goodness as long as I try I've taken my time so I won't ask for much But holy please hold me I'm missing your touch And you
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Looking At People 03:54
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You Have The Word 03:50
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Imago 03:50
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Home for the Moment is a collection of four songs I wrote and recorded between December 5 and December 12, 2022. It had been six months since I left Princeton and returned to Baltimore, during which time I also released my second album The Sale. I had just returned from touring, moved back into my childhood home, and rebuilt the basement studio in which I recorded my first album, Jules, when I was seventeen. Although written in such a condensed period of time, and under such an unusual concentration of effort, I could not help but allow these songs the conceptual noncohesion that they required to properly communicate the confusion and contradiction of the time. So this EP is an expression of many things, and it serves many purposes for me. It is first of all a reflection on the restlessness and ambivalence of this transitional period of my life–that is, the period between finishing school and whatever comes next. I wrote it from a position “stuck” in between my past and future, and I was therefore irretrievably, obsessively, preoccupied with both. Regular work on this EP gave me an opportunity to create some solid ground in the middle. It is also an attempt to incorporate the language and concepts of critical theory, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis–the focus of my undergraduate studies–within my practice as a musician. I didn’t want to leave this task to the lyrical content alone, so I also experimented with more formal and compositional means by which to work out these ideas, an inclination which inspired a reinvigorated interest in counterpoint, harmony, and arranging. These four songs are a candid document of a special moment in my life, and although they are concerned with the complications of this “in-between” time of one’s early twenties, they are also imbued with the confidence and excitement inspired by deep love, long friendships, and energetic community. To say it another way, it is about Baltimore, my home, and the people who live there.

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released March 1, 2024

Written, performed, recorded & mixed by Julien Chang
Mastered by Katie Tavini

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