The ILLYNGTON Singles

Singles Released Weekly

For a while now I’ve wanted to merge my various music personalities and really tap into all of the different creative hats I’ve put on over the years. I’ve been so accustomed to producing and recording in the same, meticulous way for years that it began to feel a bit stale. I wanted to try to achieve something different with whatever I was going to do next, I wanted to make sure that whatever a song was about, you understood the emotion behind it.

Being present has often been difficult, so I wanted to create in a way that encourages me to be complete in a moment. From the beginning of the first key played to pressing stop recording on the computer, it needed to be concentrated and quick. I started recording differently by creating a space where I just needed to sit down and play something. Instead of spending hours looking for sounds, I built a kit with all of the sounds I like by pulling from local influences across multiple genres. In the end it has to sound like home.

The lyrics need to follow that same path as the beat in terms of staying in a particular pocket. The tone of my music began to change as well. The focus became everyday life, and tapping into the emotions we all feel in our daily goings on. Rejecting the extremism and one-upping of today in exchange for something normal, or at least something that should be normal, yet still feels so far away. Like the DaDa artists of the 20th Century, Illyngton embraces the absurd, often in intelligible ways with a strong mumbled delivery that meanders between singing, rapping, and speaking. Perfection is ignored in the search for expression. Sometimes you just have to get it out.

I began releasing weekly singles from Illyngton in September of 2023 and plan on continuing for the forese