Lex Land - Alone for a While (2021)

Alone for a While covers a period of my life where I wasn't making the best choices, but they felt right at the time. Haven't we all been there? Sometimes spending time with people that aren't good for us feels better than being alone. Sometimes we do things that aren't great for our health, but they make us feel more present.

Inspired by the pervasive solitude throughout my community and the world during COVID-19, I reflected on a dark and solitary period of my life many years before - where I had a lot of fun, but also made a lot of mistakes.

Thus, "Alone for a While" was born: a retrospective collection of standards and original tunes that relate a specific narrative about an era of my 20s where I would do just about anything to avoid being alone with myself, often to my own detriment.

It's something of a modern-day Shavian "Pygmalion" story, told through both songs from the past, as well as new songs that merely hearken to a bygone era...