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Make Sensitive

by Liam Hardison

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The first time you brought me into your home, it was as if I had just stepped onto the set of a movie I had seen a hundred times. As if I had slept here a hundred times. As if I had grown here. Maybe it was a premonition, or, maybe, I was just thinking of you. Wonder why we're speaking less now? Nothing said will change what happened. Home is where I start forgiving. Forcing myself, changing for you, Speaking up at every chance to. Time deciding if I'm crazy. Time deciding that I'm crazy. Bad advice from people I love. Asked to change by people I love. Time will never wait for me to learn the way of letting someone go.
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My Bear Cub 03:40
Taking out the trash, you see a small bear cub. Where did you come from? There's only one light on right now. The sun went down about forty minutes ago. I don't see you very well. Where did you come from? ...feel. There you are. One too far. On the run from all we feel. There you are. Drift apart. On the run from all we need. I know how you feel. I don't know what to do either. I'm also standing at the edge of what I know, looking forward, looking out, with confusion about where to go next. I guess, now that I'm thinking about it, the only thing we can really do is look behind us and think about how we got where we are today. And hopefully learn something about how to get from where we are now to where we want wanna go.
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You're on your bicycle. Riding south alone on an open trail with the ocean to your right. You find a bench on the bluff. It's been hidden by the massive cypress trees that surround it. Seated on the edge of the ocean, you watch the waves crash. They never stop, they have never stopped.
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Just miles from the ocean, a mountain's been changed. There's a plateau now. Lines through a tunnel, a rail on the edge. I'm in the passenger seat, I've never been here before. You're showing me your new home. I've never been here before. Touch my tongue. Pull my hair. One more stop. You've already been here, But if I had seen the signs, I'd still be crying.

about

This album is my reckoning with the feedback that I'm too sensitive, and my realization that being sensitive is what enables me to create the music I love.

A consistent source of tension in my life exists between my being a man and remarkably more effected by confrontation, criticism, or physical conflict than other men around me. Internally, it’s made an impact on my self esteem and my gender identity. Externally, it’s put intense pressure on my relationships with people I love.

When I’m told that I’m too sensitive, I’m never sure how to apply that feedback. That component of my personality seems to be inextricable. I’ve tried to have thicker skin, to no avail. I’ve often wished I were different, more similar to those around me.

This year, after a freely-improvised-music event in Oakland, CA, a cellist approached me with a compliment about my performance. "I loved how sensitive you were," he said, and I was shown why my sensitivity has been so difficult to change. Without conscious effort, I had been cultivating and training my sensitivity in tandem with my growth as a musician. Music, my passion and devotion, was the beneficiary in my being who I am. My sensitivity is my instrument with which I compose.

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released September 20, 2022

Drums on "The Way of Letting Someone Go" by Elijah Luce-Baraceros

Album cover by Alexa Terfloth

All music and lyrics written and performed by Liam Bernard Cosgrove Hardison

All music recorded, mixed and mastered in Oakland, CA by Liam Bernard Cosgrove Hardison at 25th Street Recording and various bedrooms.

Thank you to: Emma Hardison, Tracey Cosgrove, Karin Hardison, Elijah Luce-Baraceros, Alexa Terfloth, Michael Nicolella, Jarrad Powell, Bailey Harrison, Kyle Arizabal, Gabriel Shepard, John Shimpf, Jeff Kolhede

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Liam Hardison Los Angeles, California

Composer, Performer, and Producer.

After growing up in Oakland, I attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
I moved to
Los Angeles in 2023.

Artist Portrait by Emma Hardison, my sister.
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