Danielle Fishel

So why now?

What was it about now that spoke to you?

Well, if I could release an album every year, it would be now.

Yeah.

Okay.

So what I do is release lots and lots of singles in between projects.

And my last one was TKO in 2018.

And a pandemic happened while we were actually crafting other projects and

singles as well as putting them into the universe but that time that uncertain time in all of our lives was the confirmation to continue the thought of this project that started in 2003 really with a rick james cover on my mood ring album oh so this is my living room

On retrospect, a lot of these sounds, especially for the first half of the album, which is very celebratory, pick me up moods and party moods.

That's how my living room sounded like.

And that's the music that I would craft in my playlist during the pandemic.

And I was instantly brought joy, like the environment and my frequency, my vibe shifted.

Yeah.

To an uncertain place, doubtful place, to joy.

Scary.

And I said, yeah, we have to do this.

This is the direction we're going.

No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

And that's how Retrospect was finished because the very first song on this project I cut in 2016 because I heard the music happening across the hall while I was working on another album.