This Album Was Born From Airport Layovers
Autumns Past: Lo-fi for Leaves & Leaving is a sonic diary of dusty Rhodes, mellow drums, and a little nostalgia. Ideal for long walks, watching trains depart and the art of overthinking.
Last year, a long layover at the Prague airport left me with time to kill. So I did what I usually do. Opened Logic and started building a half-baked beat on my laptop. For some reason, that track pulled me straight back to a foggy morning at Watford Junction, circa 2010: £2 coffee, grey skies, and the feeling of being a dumb kid in a new country. That memory ended up setting the tone and made me want to keep going.
I normally make music the slow, hands-on way. Piecing together drum patterns in my DAW, layering guitar riffs from my old Telecaster, adding samples and bits of sound. But I got curious about what current generative tools might bring to the process. Turns out, they let me move faster, sketch more freely, and stumble into textures I probably wouldn’t have reached otherwise.
Twenty-nine tracks later, I guess the half-baked beats had turned into an album. Press play above for the full mixtape ride. Or find your favorite moments from the album on Spotify, Youtube Music ,and Apple Music.
