LABEL: Counter Intuitive Records
RELEASE DATE: 04/17/2026
VARIANT: Shinji Splatter Vinyl LP

Stay Golden was written in my freshman and sophomore year of college as I was trying to figure out how to act like an adult while also trying to tour in my band 2-3 times a year as well as continue to run the record label I had started when I was 15. This is an album about struggling to identify with my own identity that I’d created for myself and most notably struggling to identify with the music scene. It’s about trying to understand what it means to “Stay Golden” as a sort of ideal way of living to me and to the people around me.

TRACKLIST

1. Intro
2. Stay Golden
3. Faith
4. Put Me In, Coach
5. Good News
6. Full Speed Ahead
7. Cool for a While
8. Weird Ending Explained, Pt. 1
9. Stay Golden (Reprise)
10. Happy Again
11. Merrow Lanes
12. Compound Sentences
13. Epic Season Finale
14. Weird Ending Explained, Pt. 2