https://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com/album/wordless
My third Daydream Society record, but by my estimations my worst overall work as an artist. I nowadays find it to be a very mediocre collection of uninspired ambient. That does not mean I don't find it important in my evolution as a musician, however, because there are definitely some concepts here that I've honed in future releases. A couple of really horrible tracks like "Empty Houses" and "Sort of Helpless" really hold this down. There are a couple of decent moments, but not enough to make this worth your time unless you really are interested in analyzing my progress as an artist.

https://valenceofficial.bandcamp.com...ental-abrasion
A half-assed attempt at a metal album just for fun and to see what people would think of it. Some people have surprisingly found this to be somewhat enjoyable, but I don't think there's much here to admire. There's some interesting guitar and distortion layers at points but this is mostly just a boring assault of aggression. Not my thing, but there's enough here to make it better than Wordless.

https://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com.../apathy-always
An album I forced out while dealing with depression. I think I was trying to be experimental on this one to a fault, and there's some serious garbage on here as a result. There's also some hidden gems though, and I think "Living in a Bleak Room" is one of my finer all-time tracks. There's a couple 8 minute snoozefests to get through first though, which holds this album down quite a lot.

https://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com...and-in-between
My second Daydream Society album, and on this one I was trying a ton of different styles and so for this one there's just a bunch of shorter tracks. There's no real emotional significance to this one unlike most of my other albums, hence the generic "ambient electronic album"-esque title. The style of plopping a ton of short different-sounding tracks on here is that there's a lot of crap, but there's also a lot of great stuff that I'm incredibly proud of. Listen to the closer "Variability" and tell me that's not one of my better songs. At the same time though there's cringey crap like "Snowfight" that I have trouble getting through when I try to relisten to this. Overall though we're getting into the albums that I actually think are worth hearing.

https://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com...and-allegories
My first ever solo album, and it was created under some unique circumstances as well. I literally wrote and recorded this on an airplane. My family was taking a trip that required quite a long flight so I brought along my laptop and headphones and set the badboy up on the ****ty trays you get on an airplane and went to work. This album makes it to the tenth spot pretty much solely for the first track, which is maybe one of my most successful tracks ever at conveying what I was trying to convey. It's a 7 and a half minute epic that I think exquisitely translates what it feels like to take off in a plane and soar into the skies. The four subsequent tracks are all kind of mediocre but have their moments. That opener though, seriously. I have no idea how I pulled that off so long ago when I had no real experience with this type of music.

https://cloudcover1.bandcamp.com/album/enter-humanity
Definitely the weakest of the three cloudcover records, and I think that's definitely because of the unique production cycle. We made this over two weeks basically during a Christmas break, which means the songwriting was rushed and so was the recording. There's still some fantastic stuff here but there's also some definite duds that could have been ironed out if we spent several more months on it. Favorites include the back-to-back-to-back in the middle with "Psephotus", "Adam", and "Wynberg Park". There's some shaky singing on here too (especially my work on Battle of Ghaghra, yikes) which doesn't help. Overall though I'm still proud of this album, especially considering how quickly we put it together and how it's still quite solid despite that.

https://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com/album/fervor
This is an extremely strange album for me and I can't really listen to it anymore. This was probably the weirdest, most oppressive period of time in my entire living existence thus far and I think the music here expresses that quite well. There are however some definite poor moments. The opener could have been WAY better, Fate or Fiction Pt. 1: Light Pillars is a complete dud now that I look back in retrospect, and Level-Headed just doesn't work great in the context of the album. However I am beyond proud of how the title track and Snow Drifts turned out. I still get chills listening to Snow Drifts, honestly. Oh and this album is about the early stages of my relationship with my current girlfriend, which came on the heels of a breakup with my ex of 5 years. The "Fate or Fiction" tracks refer to pivotal moments between us: Light Pillars being our first trip together to Columbus (a distinct visual memory are pillars of light rising up one of the buildings in the city), Snow Drifts being when we took a trip with our friends to northern Michigan in the winter, and The Archeologist referring to a trip we took to Indianapolis where we visited a museum. So I think it's easy to understand why this was such a weird time for me and why the music's uneasy feel reflects that. But yeah, hard album to talk about and analyze for me that's for damn sure.

https://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com/album/deconstruct
A short and simple album I dropped before my stuff was really being noticed on here, and as such I feel it doesn't get the attention it deserves. This was right about when my multi-year depression over the last two years of college was kicking in, and the next few albums portray it in differing ways. I considered this album a "deconstructing" of myself in that mindset, and as such the album feels very floaty and distant while jumping from one short idea to the next. I was smoking weed quite a lot and some of these were made while experimenting with Adderall (a drug I now hate and will never take again). There's some tracks here that I think are seriously fantastic, like "Abstruce", "Loner", and "Pararhyme". Overall from this point on in my list I think every album is great and absolutely worth listening to if you're a fan of my work.

https://cloudcover1.bandcamp.com/album/memento
The oldest album on this list, but man did we do a hell of a job all things considered. This album was written about Schuyler and I's senior year of high school and the mass amount of emotions that surround such an event. Considering we weren't even 18 for most of this, I think this album is incredibly well done and you'd be hard-pressed to find teenagers that are better at songwriting than this. I probably sound a little big-headed about it but I'm just that damn proud of what this album is and what it represents.