Lance Valentine

This album was something that I needed to make at the time to come to terms with the end of my relationship with this person as a whole. It was an outlet for my feelings that were all over the place. I felt lost, alone, helpless, betrayed, and angry. I started working on it only a couple weeks after the relationship had ended and only a few months after I released my last album River. Things seemed to get worse between us after the breakup, which made all these feelings I was bottling up intensify even more. This made the songwriting part rather easy, since I had so much to say and express and I wanted to do it in a format that some of my favorite artists had done their albums in. I knew it would be ambitious to make it a concept album but I didn’t care. I was willing to conquer the challenge even if it came out messy in a couple spots. I had extra help from my buddy Stephen Clay, who acted as a creative director on the project and even helped make a music video for Sirens, which the footage was sadly lost. Also I made the cover myself in photoshop and I still think it properly matches the music on the project. - Voiceover Project

18-year-old actor, filmmaker and musician, Lance Valentine Butler, has made himself a “genre-defying” artist in the music world. Lance has been playing guitar since the age of twelve, and began writing his own music a couple years after. He has also been a professional actor since the age of five, best known for his work alongside Russel Crowe and Ryan Gosling in the Shane Black film The Nice Guys. His musical influences range from Progressive Rock to Hip Hop & Rap. Lava is his newest record. - N/A