Porches Announces The House, Shares Pensive “Find Me” Video

As soon as Aaron Maine completed Porches’ 2016 effort Pool, the momentum from his breakthrough record kept him going. He embraced that sense of urgency to create a follow-up, and now he has announced his third album, The House.

In the span of 18 months, Maine wrote and recorded the forthcoming album, approaching the lyrics like a writing in a diary, documenting his feelings and experiences over a period of time. The album’s 14 songs are reinforced with the armor of collaboration, featuring contributions from (Sandy) Alex G, Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Okay Kaya, Maya Laner (True Blue), Bryndon Cook (Starchild & The New Romantic), Cameron Wisch (Cende) and Maine’s own father, Peter Maine.

Of the the album, Maine explains:

The songwriting became an exercise in documenting my immediate experiences, which writing has always been for me to a certain extent, but something particular was compelling me to try to portray these moments in a more linear way. Writing this record was a form of meditation, an escape, a routine—selfish at times, as it became an excuse to avoid my immediate surroundings.

In hindsight, he describes the album as “a way to look back at a time in my life and see my guts at play,” continuing, “To try and understand what was going through my head as I slid these songs out is an interesting experience, sometimes exciting, sometimes embarrassing, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes still totally confusing.”