Romantic (album)

Over the past two years, I’ve finally started to feel way less depressed and more emotionally in control. I’ve taken a more “zen” attitude towards things that are thrown at me that I can’t control. This album was a way to confront lingering feelings I deal with on the daily, while also, for the first time, become truly aware of those same feelings—insecurity, doubt, depression, anxiety—that I see in some of the people I’m closest to. It took almost 29 years to realize that I’m not alone in how I’ve been feeling, and it was up to me to just be honest about that all along.

—Vocalist Marisa Dabice on writing songs for Romantic^[2]