u/the_house_of_flowers

I make music under the name The House of Flowers, and I've got an album out today exclusively on subvert. I recorded it in lockdown and left it on my hardrive for far too long. I'd be honoured if you listened to it.

[You can listen here](https://www.subvert.fm/thehouseofflowers/leave-the-house)

These songs were written, along with a couple others, in a whirlwind period of productivity between September 2016 and June 2017. A couple of years prior, some friends and I wrote an album that explored our shared compulsion to put physical distance between ourselves and our problems. Briefly, I was convinced that I could keep running forever. Of course, I was wrong.

In August 2016 I found myself back living at my mum's house, and I began to realise how exhausting it can be to be always on the run, but lacked the scope for self-reflection to understand why I was running in the first place. These songs were born of that tension.

I made numerous plans to record this album over the years that followed, but for one reason or another, nothing came to be, until we all found ourselves stuck at home for a bit in 2020.

I set myself a challenge to make an album using only equipment I already owned. No new software or hardware and certainly no new instruments. Although I was allowed to buy new guitar strings and plectrums as required. I was also only allowed to spend one day working on each song, to keep my tendency to tinker at bay. The project got off to a rocky start when it took me a whole day to locate the one mic cable I owned.

I recorded these songs over ten consecutive weekdays and then sent it to my old pal Rich Mandell to mix and master. I was so proud of this slightly scrappy homemade folk punk record and couldn't wait to share it, but releasing music without playing shows didn't seem right, so I held the album back until the world opened up.

And then the world opened up and I listened to the album, and couldn't recognise the narrator. By this point it was 2022, I was still relatively new to sobriety and becoming increasingly healed and reflective. Some of these songs were 6 years old, written at my lowest emotional ebb. The songs evoked chaos and uncertainty, the final chapter in my turbulent youth. I felt strange releasing songs that no longer reflected who I was as a person, so I just....didn't.

Leave the House, originally conceived as a spiritual successor to an album released in 2015, has remained on my hard drive for nearly 6 years. I listened to it for the first time in a while in early 2026 and felt a renewed compassion for my younger self. Not always making the best choices, but never afraid to feel the full range of human emotions. If you connect with these songs, please remember, there are always better days ahead.

I make music under the name The House of Flowers, and I've got an album out today exclusively on subvert. I recorded it in lockdown and left it on my hardrive for far too long. I'd be honoured if you listened to it.

[You can listen here](https://www.subvert.fm/thehouseofflowers/leave-the-house)

These songs were written, along with a couple others, in a whirlwind period of productivity between September 2016 and June 2017. A couple of years prior, some friends and I wrote an album that explored our shared compulsion to put physical distance between ourselves and our problems. Briefly, I was convinced that I could keep running forever. Of course, I was wrong.

In August 2016 I found myself back living at my mum's house, and I began to realise how exhausting it can be to be always on the run, but lacked the scope for self-reflection to understand why I was running in the first place. These songs were born of that tension.

I made numerous plans to record this album over the years that followed, but for one reason or another, nothing came to be, until we all found ourselves stuck at home for a bit in 2020.

I set myself a challenge to make an album using only equipment I already owned. No new software or hardware and certainly no new instruments. Although I was allowed to buy new guitar strings and plectrums as required. I was also only allowed to spend one day working on each song, to keep my tendency to tinker at bay. The project got off to a rocky start when it took me a whole day to locate the one mic cable I owned.

I recorded these songs over ten consecutive weekdays and then sent it to my old pal Rich Mandell to mix and master. I was so proud of this slightly scrappy homemade folk punk record and couldn't wait to share it, but releasing music without playing shows didn't seem right, so I held the album back until the world opened up.

And then the world opened up and I listened to the album, and couldn't recognise the narrator. By this point it was 2022, I was still relatively new to sobriety and becoming increasingly healed and reflective. Some of these songs were 6 years old, written at my lowest emotional ebb. The songs evoked chaos and uncertainty, the final chapter in my turbulent youth. I felt strange releasing songs that no longer reflected who I was as a person, so I just....didn't.

Leave the House, originally conceived as a spiritual successor to an album released in 2015, has remained on my hard drive for nearly 6 years. I listened to it for the first time in a while in early 2026 and felt a renewed compassion for my younger self. Not always making the best choices, but never afraid to feel the full range of human emotions. If you connect with these songs, please remember, there are always better days ahead.

I make music under the name The House of Flowers, and I've got an album out today exclusively on subvert. I recorded it in lockdown and left it on my hardrive for far too long. I'd be honoured if you listened to it.

You can listen here

These songs were written, along with a couple others, in a whirlwind period of productivity between September 2016 and June 2017. A couple of years prior, some friends and I wrote an album that explored our shared compulsion to put physical distance between ourselves and our problems. Briefly, I was convinced that I could keep running forever. Of course, I was wrong.

In August 2016 I found myself back living at my mum's house, and I began to realise how exhausting it can be to be always on the run, but lacked the scope for self-reflection to understand why I was running in the first place. These songs were born of that tension.

I made numerous plans to record this album over the years that followed, but for one reason or another, nothing came to be, until we all found ourselves stuck at home for a bit in 2020.

I set myself a challenge to make an album using only equipment I already owned. No new software or hardware and certainly no new instruments. Although I was allowed to buy new guitar strings and plectrums as required. I was also only allowed to spend one day working on each song, to keep my tendency to tinker at bay. The project got off to a rocky start when it took me a whole day to locate the one mic cable I owned.

I recorded these songs over ten consecutive weekdays and then sent it to my old pal Rich Mandell to mix and master. I was so proud of this slightly scrappy homemade folk punk record and couldn't wait to share it, but releasing music without playing shows didn't seem right, so I held the album back until the world opened up.

And then the world opened up and I listened to the album, and couldn't recognise the narrator. By this point it was 2022, I was still relatively new to sobriety and becoming increasingly healed and reflective. Some of these songs were 6 years old, written at my lowest emotional ebb. The songs evoked chaos and uncertainty, the final chapter in my turbulent youth. I felt strange releasing songs that no longer reflected who I was as a person, so I just....didn't.

Leave the House, originally conceived as a spiritual successor to an album released in 2015, has remained on my hard drive for nearly 6 years. I listened to it for the first time in a while in early 2026 and felt a renewed compassion for my younger self. Not always making the best choices, but never afraid to feel the full range of human emotions. If you connect with these songs, please remember, there are always better days ahead.