Accidents

 
 

Bio

Jonathan Linden is a Sydney-born, New York-based guitarist and singer-songwriter whose work brings together the lyrical traditions of 1960s and 1970s country-folk, the innovations of alternative and progressive rock, the melodic sensibilities of indie-pop, and the color of jazz harmony.

After spending the last decade working as a touring guitarist and guitarist for hire, Jonathan is now sharing a body of carefully incubated original songs.

 

Accidents

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For years, Jonathan photographed spills, stains, and other accidental compositions encountered on the streets of New York. The cover of Accidents comes from that archive: a phone photograph capturing the Onitsuka Tigers he wore for nearly twenty years at the edge of a bright green spill. Now forty—and, for once, wearing different sneakers—the image has become an unexpected portrait of time passing. Accidents may be his debut album, but it is hardly an arrival by chance: the songs reflect two decades of writing, living, and gathering fragments into form. The cover looks back on those years while marking the moment he finally steps into something new.

 

All My Songs are Accidents

All My Songs Are Accidents is a companion zine created for the Bandcamp edition of the album.

Part field journal and part creative record, the zine extends the ideas behind Accidents beyond the music. It reflects on the mistakes, fragments, doubts, unexpected discoveries, and changes in direction that shaped the songs.

Together, the album and zine consider a simple idea: creative work rarely arrives exactly as planned. Sometimes the mistake is the beginning. Sometimes the abandoned idea returns in another form. Sometimes the accident becomes the song.

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Album

Jonathan Linden