![]() ![]() Placing a heating pad on my stomach does too. There are also mornings, like today, when I feel imprisoned in a labyrinth of negative thoughts. There are mornings when I can wake up, take a shower, and go about my day with relative ease. My current therapist encourages me to “sit with the feeling” instead, and sometimes I can tolerate it. Now, two decades later, I still rely on cleaning as a coping mechanism for my anxiety. Cleaning gave me the sense that I could find inner order among the outer chaos - our cramped New York apartment, murmurs of my parents’ struggling marriage, the growing pains of adolescence. My favorite part was wiping down the sink with warm water, feeling my worries wash away with stubble and soap scum. I didn’t see anything wrong with what I was doing: organizing their medicine cabinet by color and size, throwing out expired antibiotics and sticky bottles of cough syrup. My parents dragged me into treatment after repeatedly catching me cleaning their bathroom. When I was nine, I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder by my first-ever therapist. Along the way, Epitaph has grown and evolved creatively while sticking to its mission of helping real artists make great recordings on their own terms.Where your work meets your life. Early releases from a variety of punk heavyweights helped launch the 90s punk explosion. Now how could I keep my promise to return?Įpitaph Records is an artist-first indie label founded in Los Angeles by Bad Religion guitarist, Brett Gurewitz. What if there’s nothing left there for me now? Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NYC ![]() Recorded at Studio 4 Recording, Conshohocken, PA Quicksand is Alan Cage, Walter Schreifels, and Sergio Vega ![]() "Brushed" by from the album 'Distant Populations', available August 13 ![]()
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