When I was 24, I moved from Iowa to Nebraska. I was dealing with depression and feeling
overwhelmed by life; so, I didn’t make many friends, right away. Every night, I would stay up late in my basement bedroom and write songs, riffs, and beats until the morning hours. City came as a culmination of working on the grindstone as a way to avoid dealing with my emotional and social problems.

‘Wide awake while the city sleeps, we make dreams reality,’ became the anthem of my desire to create songs that inspired and reach people who may have been dealing with loneliness, depression, and insomnia, like me. It isn’t meant to be a sad song to illicit pity but a tune of encouragement. Keep on working and believing and we will get through this together.

– Jamin Schrader

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