In early 2026, the singer-songwriter returned to years of cassette recordings made on a portable recorder -- simple voice-and-guitar performances he would capture as songs were written. Many were set aside, unfinished and forgotten.

Four of them, written within a few months in early 1999, sounded like a single work waiting to be heard. He brought them to a guitarist friend who had retired from professional music and to his own son, a college-age drummer.

Together, they turned the songs into melodic, guitar-driven alternative rock shaped by failed communication, restless escape and the inward gravity of depression.

Written as the internet entered everyday life and recorded as new technology begins to reshape it, the songs ask the same questions, now carried forward by:

The Undeliverables.