“YAWN” Is my newest album under the moniker of “Daggy Man”. What follows is somewhat of a personal manifesto about the music.

Every album to me is an expression and digestion of the deeper questions that are running like a thread through my life at the time, and making the music is like putting together the puzzle, moving around the pieces until they all fit together to make a greater whole. 

With “YAWN”, I really wanted to explore sides of my songwriting that I hadn’t before, and I began by digging deep into the question of why I make music in the first place. 

When I began writing this record I felt like my soul was desperate for change, I had struggled for so long, just to get through every day, putting one foot in front of the other and unable to focus on much outside of the goal; of staying alive and afloat. I found myself in a place where things finally felt possible again. there was going to be a life in front of me, and the thought of that life finally contained the potential for unknowns, when for so long all I could see was this one, restricted way of existing. I was excited again, and I was curious and alive to the power of music and connected to the inner spark that made me start making it in the first place. 

I wanted to be surprised and inspired by the unexpected twists and turns that inspiration drove me to take. I wanted to make something that I couldn’t consciously expect or predict,  and let the flow of just doing guide the project. 

I wanted to make something challenging, something passionate and erratic and spontaneous but all the while meaningful and purposeful. I wanted to follow what excited me most at the time and push myself to communicate those messages and feelings in a way that felt fresh, and true. These songs jump around in genre, in form, in mood and attitude, and that’s because I believe these are all traits that we share as human beings and I’m interested in telling stories about that. nothing is ever one thing and I’ve never been interested in sticking with one genre or one style, I love all types of different music and am interested in exploring all possibilities in music-making. the through-line that connects all of these disparate parts is that they’re each individually made with honesty and commitment. In the end that’s the ideal I want to embody most as an artist. 

This album is about the self, it’s about personality, it’s about connection and communication, between people, between moments, and between different parts of our inner dialogue. It’s about lost souls and searching minds and the pursuit of peace and meaning among the chaos of your own reality. 

It’s full of light and shade, it’s full of humour and pathos. It’s bizarre and strange and not like anything I’ve ever made before, it’s connected to some primal place within my body, and not just crafted with my mind.

I wanted to make an album that was simultaneously strong and fragile, outlandish and meek, funny and sad, beautiful and ugly. 

In the end though, I’m aware that I can dissect and define the album's supposed intentions and meanings from the standpoint of the person I am now, but in listening to these songs, in some ways I still have no idea where they came from. And that's exactly why I’m so proud of it.

Contact Daggy Man - Daggymanmusic@gmail.com