"Rose Panic Mother" my 2021 RPM Challenge album

Well it’s that time of the year again, february came and went and left me with this brand new baby RPM challenge album. Rose Panic Mother is my thirteenth challenge album and my first under lockdown. I felt the need for catharsis and sustained release this last month/year so this album more so than any of my other albums is loud and pretty dancey. My stand out tracks would be “I Found Love (in the usual places)” which is a pretty wacky up tempo number ala The Make-Up or The Cramps with a very overblown musical theatre type second half, “This doesn’t fit in my fantasy” which is one of my better synth driven straight up pop songs, “Mom always asks why I do this every year” which is a chorus-less song about recording a terrible song that gave me a lot of trouble in the studio but a friend of mine who is a songwriter I deeply respect said it “is now firmly in the canon of great songs about songs” so it was worth the trouble, and “Anthem of privilege in the ears of the damned” which is a wordy attempt to write a utopian song that is also a commentary on the absurd distortion of reality from the perspective of privilege, I really enjoy some of the lines in this one and it felt very satisfying to write. Anyway, I think this album holds up as one of my better RPM efforts and y’all should listen to it if you like me.