Just release it already

I’ve got a new song coming out in April on the 23rd called “Powerless” and this is something I’ve posted about on here before, but I told myself “just release it already.”

I get caught up in the process of making something and want to make everything absolutely perfect before I release it. Sometimes it prevents me from actually releasing music because I keep learning more and more and going back and polishing and polishing.

And to some extent having that level of detail can be good, but a lot of the time it prevents you from releasing anything, which isn’t good.

So what I try to do to combat this is to get something good enough where I’m proud of it and just release it. I need to decide it’s done, which can be difficult, but that’s how I combat that attitude. I get the music good enough to the point where I’m proud of it and decide it’s done.

That often means that I’ll later (a few years later) hear things in my old music that I could change to improve it, but that’s fine. Those things don’t need to be changed. That’s where I was when those songs were released and I think of it as a good thing that I’ve learned enough about music making to hear things that I could change.

So just release it already.

ISJ