Whims by Will Epstein

Whims is a collection of songs that were each written and recorded in a single day over the course of two weeks in 2020. The music was crafted in a deep trance-like state as the pieces were transformed from morning noodles into fully fledged sonic beings by the end of the day. Given the limitations of the exercise, there was no room for overthinking, only the opportunity to pour out whatever noises and sentiments were around that day and weld them together into something that felt complete. What resulted for me was work that feels both heavy and light, spontaneous and ornamented, and enormously therapeutic to make. Partly for this reason (and now that I’ve forgotten how exhausting it was), I’m very fond of these songs, and hope you’ll find solace in their dreamy ebbs and flows and laments of love and longing from a time of hermetic intensity.