Split Second

If there’s a central question at the heart of Split Second, it’s a familiar one: how did we end up here? Grief, breakups, reunions, cross-country drives, and quiet New York City park moments all run through the record.

Mona Lisa is a dusty acoustic love song written after Renny reunited with his girlfriend, while Impossible Truth flips the mood with urgent drums and angsty ’00s mall-rock melodies pushing toward relationship-shaking arguments.

Elsewhere, autobiography meets abstraction. Leaving The Zoo began as a song about leaving New York, then evolved into a vision of standing between life and death. Water’s Edge channels grief through psychedelic weight, and San Francisco, 2005, written after his brother’s passing, turns scattered memories into a striking vocal hook over tangled acoustic and electric guitars.