Monowhales - Tunnel Vision (2022) Hi Res

This album saved our lives. It's hard to admit that without the making and recording of 'Tunnel Vision' I don't know if I'd still be alive. We've all been through the ringer the last few years and I was no exception. The highs were intense, but the lows even lower. The music on this record still feels like a raw cut that is slowly scabbing over as I continually work on myself.

Leading up to the studio I fell off the deep end, I holed myself up in morbid preparations and was unreachable outside my walls. Guilt drove me to showing up to the studio to finish these songs, and now in a twisted way, I'm grateful for guilt itself. We wrote and recorded this album in a time where we were all staring into static day after day, hope had faded into bleakness. I am grateful for my bandmates, friends and family who carried me and had difficult conversations with me as I waned in and out of disassociating. Fast forward to today, that cyclical thought cycle is broken. I can see a clear snapshot of how clouded and unwatered my brain was.

Truth be told, I wasn't the only one in the band suffering. We each went through our own relentless dark struggles during this time. Everyday for weeks I spent hours on the phone with Jordan trying to talk the life back into him. Even just thinking back to our conversations my heart breaks. I knew that as long as I had him on the phone, he had more minutes in the day on this earth so everyday when we'd talk, I never really wanted him to hang up. In contrast, Zach can be a very reclusive guy, but our friendships run deep. Even if nothing is said, we intuitively know when Zach is going through it and we try to support him in the best ways we could.

Throughout the process of writing, rehearsing, recording and making this album we continued to break our backs lifting each other up. We dragged each other to the finish line. Voila, here we all are to tell you that this is what our story sounded like and we are proud to have made it here to show you.