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Although Anthony Green is best known as the lead singer of Circa Survive, he’s also an accomplished instrumentalist in his own right. He's been penning the songs on his debut solo album, Avalon, consistently for the past decade; initially intending many of the songs to be used in Circa Survive. Green ultimately decided that in order to fully realize his artistic vision he would have to tackle these tracks on his own.
"I think at the time that I was writing a lot of these songs I wasn’t necessarily able to articulate to [Circa Survive] all the stuff musically I wanted to do with them," Green explains. "I don’t know chords; I don’t know scales; I can’t talk to anybody about time signatures, so I couldn’t really explain how I wanted these to sound without doing something ridiculous like humming something out that doesn’t make sense to anyone except myself." Avalon allowed Green to present his songs exactly the way he envisioned them, making this album the first true glimpse into the inner workings of Green’s psyche.
Although he prefers his lyrics to be open to interpretation, Green will admit that every song on this album is related to something that he’s experienced personally over the past decade with some of the most direct lyrics he’s ever written. "I think everyone is always trying to look for what the meaning of everything is and what’s funny to me about these songs is that they’re all so obvious."
Green is adamant about writing songs. "I’m always busy, I’ll be busy all my life; that’s just the way I like it," he explains with a laugh. "I never liked working hard until I found something that didn’t make me feel like an alien to what I was doing; I think with music and art I belong there and I’m a native so I don’t mind doing it all the time. In fact, I embrace it."
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