Feel Better Soon! - AJ Thompson

Sound/ Experimental music
13:13 - 1 EP consisting of 4 songs

An EP of experimental alt-pop music in which AJ tries to integrate many of his musical influences and interests into his music through his own unique sonic and aesthetic lenses to create a dense musical amalgamation of a difficult period in his life.

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Feel Better Soon! (EP)

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An EP of experimental alt-pop music where AJ tries to refine his unique approach to sound and music creation in order to deliver a sonic experience that is distinctly his own. He combines and incorporates elements of his many different interests and influences including (but not limited to); pop, experimental electronic, RnB, alternative, hip-hop, emo, indie and hyperpop among many others. Feel Better Soon! accumulates into a multi-genre experience that is as interesting musically, lyrically and sonically as it is aesthetically. AJ hopes you are able to open your mind and enjoy his dense musical amalgamation of a difficult period in his life.

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The album art should feel unexpected and almost confused. Juxtaposition played a big role in the creation of it. It’s AJ in a black, cloud print dress with dark eye makeup on and stickers on his face in the middle of a graveyard holding a brightly colored balloon that you’d see on hospital patients’ bedsides which reads; “Feel Better Soon!”. The synesthetic drawings I hope resemble the songs in terms of structure and aesthetic for others because I view those as a natural byproduct of the music creation process itself and an extension if you will of the songs content. I can’t quite explain it but there’s something in the drawings for each that resonate as a truthful depiction of it’s content and experience as a whole. They’re only in black and white because it makes the most sense to my mind that way and adds to its overall “truthfulness” to me because to add color, I feel would only resonate as “truthful” to me if it were to be a 3D experience.

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