In the album itself, you can feel the drama and this grandness. You can feel a lot of hubris - I think my life got really contentious the past couple of years with how big everything's kind of gotten, the pressure and the scale.
Requiem itself, the title of the album and the title track of it, is about loss, and that's something that I've wrangled with the past couple of years. As you know, I'm starting to roll into being 30 years old, and I'm really grateful that I didn't have to deal with it until now.
Experiencing this has really changed my perspective on my life, my time, and how I prioritize things. And it was such an impactful moment for me that it just felt right to name the entire record about it.
Also, requiem just such a beautiful sounding word in general - in classical music, it's like the song that you play at someone's funeral. So I'd written a lot of songs about that experience, but none quite as poignant as 'Requiem' itself.
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