This is terrible, but at least it’s raw and it’s emotional.'” At the time I just really thought, ‘This music sucks. “That’s kind of what it’s about-being expressive without having to focus so much attention on whether or not it’s good. “I didn’t have to think at all about those songs on the first Sadness album. “That’s obviously really exhausting and taxing on my brain.” He started Sadness to relieve some of this pressure he was putting on himself-the idea would be to record songs straight from his gut, without fussing over them or second-guessing his choices. “I was really trying to consider the bigger picture of what I was creating-not just the raw emotion, but also trying to make it into something a little bit more meticulous and composed,” Ojeda says of his musical endeavors in the early 2010s. They met in their early teens, after Ojeda moved to Oak Park in 2010, and they launched Born an Abomination in 2012. Kaskaskia is a duo with vocalist Tony Hicks, who previously worked with Ojeda on a depressive black-metal project called Born an Abomination. He’s got four other projects, mostly solo, whose music is scattered around the grid of hard and heavy sounds-they include noise rock (Comforting), screamo (Life), and black metal inflected with dungeon synth (Kaskaskia). Sadness isn’t even Ojeda’s only creative outlet. “If I don’t make music-if I were to take a hiatus and just fuck around and do nothing productive-that would make me feel terrible,” Ojeda says. He still has three compilations of older demos in the pipeline. When I reached Ojeda by phone in early October, he was working on six Sadness releases, and since then he’s put out three: April Sunset and Motionless, Watching You, of course, plus an untitled album he’s been tinkering with since 2018 that came out Friday, November 5.
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