My first album, "Meet Your Antagonist," was released following my graduation from high school. It was an album that synthesized parts of me---the parts that I hated, the parts that made me who I am today---and poured them into fictional characters that I sang about in a hope that they would animate themselves and become something outside of myself entirely. The album was a mode of catharsis, reconciliation, and a way to "carry my pain to you" as I put it in the end credits track. Making that record absolutely drained me, and I considered quitting music following its completion. After high school I moved from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles for college, and found myself lost in an unfamiliar place. While I've grown to love LA, it really challenged me to look deep into myself and asses who I thought I was, what my values are, and who I want to be. I'm still searching, but I know now that I want to dedicate my life to music. I wrote the majority of this album during my first semester of college, and for some reason, it just felt right to continue the story of these fictional characters that, to me, have blossomed into something more than just reflections of myself. Maybe, in a way, it felt like they tied me back to my home in Portland. "i love to party" is an album of isolation, denial, and ultimately acceptance. The album brings back the characters---the Antagonist, Alexander, and Venus---and puts a rest to their story. However, I wanted you, as the listener, to have some say in how it ends. An ending that you may choose depending on where you find yourself in life, where you find yourself in relation to the conflict of past, present, and future. Inside this album and these characters are endless fragments of myself and my lived experience and I hope you are able to find those fragments of yourself in them too. -Miles, LFC <3