“Cautionary tale is about my struggles with genuineness, perfectionism, and finding a sense of reality in my music. in a lot of ways this admittedly comes easy to me in a sense, write some existential lyrics, throw a guitar on it, and end the song in some meaningful emotional drop. but that's the only formula i know. that's what i had felt like i had been stuck to for a while. everything else i made felt like i wasn't being consistent with the artist i wanted to be. any other idea without these things didn't feel human or real at all, and so i didn't dwell on the idea that i was allowed make something else for a long time. this ep started off as a lot of old bass music projects, and for the reasons above i had felt that it at first wouldn't feel right as the first big aephyn project (i was moving away from that sound, i thought). although this sound was fine in the era it had started. my vision for this project was different then, but things changed and i now began to find any reason i could to dislike this project, whether it was the ideas themselves or the execution or anything of the sort. nothing about this project felt real or important to me then, but i'd come to realize no artist would truly judge how 'genuine' a song of mine was except for me. in the end, with enough refinements, i called the project done. at times it still felt like it was imperfect or incomplete or something of the like, yet it's still mine. and even if this project is different, it will always stay mine as long as the aephyn name is right beside it. staying stagnant with your style gives you no chance to further create yourself, anyway. things change, and that's just my job to accept. the meaning i was trying to seek in these songs was nothing more than just having fun and writing some cool music, and that's. Fine. the work is human because it's me. and with that i finally bring this project to you, showing you the warning i wish i could have given myself when i started” - aephyn