HeyJaredJosh Ottum: Sounds Like You
A new creative prompt every Friday and reflections on making music.
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The Journey Continues (opens the original)
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The journey of releasing an album every full moon for three years continues onward and upward. The fifth album is called Pair of Dice and you can listen and buy on Bandcamp now.<img alt="" class="sizin
It Isn’t There (opens the original)
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First, a final excerpt from my forthcoming book of creative prompts. The book is called Sounds Like You and its set for a November 2026 release. This prompt connects to a current fascination with liminal spaces that horror film makers and younger people than me seem to love. I love them too. Edward Soja and Fredric Jameson talked about some of this stuff in regards to a postmodern city, Mission Viejo, California is a perfect example of it, and Daniel Lopatin arguably ushered it in with the force
Repeating Myself (opens the original)
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Summer winds down prompting relaxed hum of anxiety across my educationally-minded household. My dog Tank looks at me with all the eternal questions of any animal obsessed with their next meal. Minimalism is generally back in my mind these days and the eternal questions of quantity and quality continue to simmer as I release my fourth single in my run of 36.The song that came out this week is called “It Isn’t There.” You can preorder the album of the same title now and dig the particular tones we
Heart to Heart (opens the original)
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Heart to Heart is out now. Grab it on Bandcamp. Josh Ottum: Sounds Like You is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div cl
The Summer Stretch (opens the original)
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my project of releasing an album every full moon for the next three years continues to roll out.i’ve got a single out today from this month’s album. its called “Heart to Heart” and features Kosta Galanopoulos (Fruit Bats, Delicate Steve), Luke Temple (Art Feynman, Here We Go Magic), and Erica Shafer (Pearl and the Oysters, Weyes Blood, Miley Cyrus). It was recorded and mixed by Chris Schlarb. I’ll write more about it when the album comes at the end of the month, but for now, enjoy the single:<di
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