We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.

You are.

Never forget the simple pleasure of just listening to music. I wrote a whole album about it a few years ago called The Lost Art Of Listening. This one's about how a song can simultaneously take you away from the concerns of life, yet make you…

This song is a work in process, co-written with Sarah Hansen.

2021 RPM Challenge

Created on the Polyend Tracker using a single "monowave" wavetable sample for a 48 hour Discord mini jam comp thingummy.

This is a song about someone John met when he moved to Arizona in 1975. A brief encounter that left inspiration for a song.

Working on a Plan © 2021 – John Otto Young – Fluffy Baby Music / BMI I wake up when my body tells me to The dogs’ll tell me what they want to do I wonder how my friends are doing today I wonder if they’ll come on out and play I run outside…

This was the third song I started working on this month and it's the 15th song finished. What does that tell you? I liked it a lot when I first came up with the idea. When I put the rhythm guitars down it started to feel like it wasn't meeting…

Fathoms deep

Also from RPM10, I felt like I had to revisit this one just because I love the absurd time signatures.