sky sailing an airplane carried me to bed

It just kind of happened that way and it felt right. Though nothing I’ve ever written has been 100% left or right on the spectrum, it’s always been clear to me that there are two (and more) creative avenues I have a clear vision for and thus, both projects are disconnected enough from each other to be their own separate identities. Is there anything that you would write about as Sky Sailing that you wouldn’t as Owl City? Sky Sailing claims the “darker” side of my writing. The songs and lyrics have a “searching” quality to them, always eluding to the idea that there is more out there, just waiting to be explored or discovered. No intense programming appears on the Sky Sailing record and everything was performed by hand rather than sequenced. However, Sky Sailing is darker, moodier, and much more organic. How is Sky Sailing different from Owl City?īoth projects are from the same guy, the same mind, and since the same guy is the singer of both projects, it may be easier to point out the similarities rather than the differences. Sky Sailing was a whole new world at the time.

I started out as an instrumentalist producing super ambient/experimental stuff. The recordings are pretty sentimental to me because they were the first songs I’d put together, and specifically, the first songs I’d ever written lyrics for. It wasn’t doing anything but taking up space on my hard drive so I did a bit of polishing and released it. I had a secret album in the can, just sitting there collecting dust. It was one of those things, given the timeline, that just felt right. Sky Sailing preceded Owl City, why go back now? I gladly quit my warehouse job at Coca-Cola and climbed aboard the music boat. Universal Republic called me up out of the blue and asked me what I was doing. I somehow started scoring enough sales/plays via iTunes and MySpace to catch the attention of the majors. I find the creative process is unbelievably inspiring in and of itself.

I suppose that makes me a “voracious inventor” or something like that. To this day, I cannot stop writing/recording. I dabbled with programming and sequencing and eventually contracted a serious creative infection that still hasn’t left me. Thankfully it was my left wrist, so I could still use a computer mouse. I started writing in high school after I broke my wrist (which is ironic) due to a skateboard accident. When did you start writing songs? How were they compared to what you’re writing now? He recently released the critically-acclaimed An Airplane Carried Me to Bed, the debut Sky Sailing record, which shines a spotlight on his earliest compositions. Before he launched his Owl City empire (their latest album, Ocean Eyes, sold over a million copies), Young recorded under the moniker Sky Sailing. You may know Adam Young, 24, as the mastermind behind Owl City, Taylor Swift’s favorite emo band.

Sky sailing an airplane carried me to bed