With the exception of So Many Days, I'll See You Then consists of rerecordings of songs that I wrote in October 2017 during my last semester at UTSA. I didn't have any instruments with me in my dorm, so they were all originally composed on Musescore, and then recorded whenever I came back home. And the songs then were in very different forms compared to here. Real noisy lofi type stuff, big lowpasses on the vocals, Izotope Vinyl on the master, and 808 drums run through a guitar amp. Maybe I'll drop those one day. Only like two of those were actually finished back then. Anyway, I had these songs on the backburner for a long time. Like, these were before even Tomato Soup Blueberry (or really, kinda around the same time). I thought there was something there, but I felt like the moment to work on those old recordings had passed, and I did Tomato Soup Blueberry instead. Y'all know the rest from here.

But eventually and very impulsively, one day I was like "hey, what if i finished that album?". In August of this year, I had the house to myself for about a week, and I set out to record the bulk of the album, at the time still under the working title "Dumb Year". Turns out this music making stuff is a lot easier when the song are already mostly written. So I knocked out all the jarana, drums, bass, and vocals in that week. The idea for So Many Days came to me in the shower that week. Then the guitars, horns, organs, bleeps and bloops were added in the following months. That part was really fun, I mostly used it as an opportunity to use all the new gear I'd gotten since The Palms.

Which brings us to the modern day, 12/21/2023. I'll see you then at Autumn's end. Here is sorta the third Erick Mendoza album, but also kinda the first? I like to think of it as written and composed by 2017 me and then finished, produced, and arranged by 2023 me. Either way, it's been a long time coming, I'm glad it's out and I hope you like it.