2020. I’m about to release a record.

The music industry has become overrun with the unwelcome opinions of fame-hungry artists, eager to parrot the correct political talking points to garner approval on social media and fawning adoration in the press. I don’t know at what point exactly music became a political weapon, but I hate it.

So let me say up front...as I’m getting ready to release my first solo EP...that I’m here for the music. And the music only. I don’t want to preach at you, I don’t want to curse you out if your politics don’t match mine, I don’t seek a platform from which I can lecture others and foster division and hatred in the name of social virtue.

Don’t get me wrong - I don’t want this to read like some “music unites us all” feel-good nonsense that the corporate music industry is continually packaging and selling us, along with overpriced Bob Marley merchandise and festival tickets.

It’s simply that I don’t care what you believe or what your stance is on climate change or universal health care or Trump. I don’t care who you love or how you love them. I don’t care what faith you subscribe to or where your existential allegiances lie.

You’re a human being, with the same blood in your veins that runs through mine. You respond to inspiration and art and beauty just like I do...and that’s why I do what I do - in the hope that others will love the music I create as much as I do.

And if that happens to be you, you have my gratitude, appreciation, and my respect, no matter who you are.