Noah Gundersen w/ Abby Gundersen

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Noah Gundersen w/ Abby Gundersen at The Blue Room 10/2

Noah Gundersen w/ Abby Gundersen: Ledges 10 Year Anniversary

It’s a strange thing to have a living artifact of your younger self. To observe the manifestations of a younger you’s inner life. With the benefit of hindsight, our shortsightedness and misplaced fears and hopes seem so obvious. As I look back, ten years later, to the person I was when I made Ledges, I see a young man full of ambition and naivety, desperate for validation and a sense of belonging.

They say you have your whole life to make your first record and 18 months to make your second. Although Ledges isn’t technically my first album, for all intents and purposes, it feels like it. It was the one I spent years writing. Everything was new back then. The colors were brighter, the highs higher, the lows lower. Falling in love felt like the first time. Heartbreak felt like the end of the world. Ideas felt important and the future was a big, empty canvas. There’s a lot of self importance in all of this and ultimately this is just some record that some kid made. But to that kid this record felt like his whole world. And like all records, it’s a little snapshot in time.

I don’t want to live in the past. But I’m grateful this marker of how it once was. A little simpler, a little cleaner, a whole lot of potential. This is the future I imagined and hoped for. This is the person I am now. And it’s nice to be able to look back and see how far I’ve come.