Day of the Mountain

Written during the COVID-19 pandemic and recorded once New York City's lockdown had ended, Inside Voices is a window into both the anxieties of modern love against the backdrop of overlapping crises and the deep domesticity of sharing a small New York City apartment with one's romantic partner. A product of this strange era, Inside Voices nonetheless touches on timeless themes of love despite difficult days and facing the kinds of fears that every couple faces in a long-term romance. Inspired by such artists as Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Wye Oak, and Helado Negro, and composed on analog and digital synthesizers by songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist/poet John Paul Davis, Inside Voices features a wide cast of collaborators adding guitar, bass, saxophone, piano and human voice. Fleshing out what began as experiments in ambient and generative music into a fusion of alternative, electronic and indie rock Inside Voices captures the intimacy, anxiety and joy of a romance in its middle age without succumbing to despair or claustrophobia. Indeed, what makes Inside Voices refreshing is the hope at the heart of the songs; in spite of a weird outside world getting weirder, wracked by political turmoil and climate crises, the eyes of these songs are on a future that is not set, but open to surprise, to possibility, to not just the danger, but also the delight.