Eve, the debut Evenson wrote alone in a cabin in the woods

Evenson has been putting out music since 2019. His first album arrived on 21 July 2026.

It is called Eve, it runs a little over thirty-five minutes, and it holds ten tracks, one of which is an interlude of a minute and sixteen seconds. It came out on VERO Music, which the credits show holds it under exclusive licence from Evenson.

Much of it was written on solitary retreats in a cabin in the woods. The label and the press that introduced the record both say so, and five subjects are named: identity, love, family, masculinity and self-realisation.

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Four singles, then the album

The record did not arrive in one piece. Over the four months before it, four songs came out, one every three or four weeks, each with its own official video.

It starts on 21 April with “Trading Places”, presented as the first taste. The announcement talks about grand piano and glockenspiel; RIFF Magazine, flagging it in its weekly round-up, names the glockenspiel and a slowly strummed guitar.

Then “The Way I Feel” on 19 May, “Retrograde Pt. 2” on 9 June, “Someday” on 7 July. The album landed two weeks after the last single, with four of its ten tracks already in circulation.

Twenty-eight years, and a confrontation with himself

In the statement that came with the record, Evenson does not talk about sound. He talks about how much life is inside it.

This record is a culmination of my life. It’s 28 years of experience. The ebbs and flows of the human condition. A confrontation with self; not only the good, but the darker parts too.

The rest of the material points the same way: the writing done in isolation, the subjects the label lists. Nobody called it a concept album, and the declared thread is a single one, a person looking at himself.

Haitian heritage, and what masculinity is doing in there

Evenson is a first-generation Haitian American, born in Connecticut. On the label’s page he describes that heritage as the place he finds strength, and calls it a fundamental part of who he is.

Speaking to Flaunt, he had also given the second, less comfortable half of it. He wants to take on the hypermasculinity he sees promoted in the Haitian community.

That is the reason he gives when he explains why intimacy and mental health turn up in his songs. So when the label lists masculinity among the album’s subjects, it is not reciting a slogan: it is pointing at unfinished business.

The centre of the record runs backwards

In fifth and sixth position sit two songs carrying the same title, “Retrograde Pt. 1” and “Retrograde Pt. 2”. They run almost the same length, three minutes forty and three thirty-five, and they sit back to back.

Part one is the one you hear first. In the story they tell, though, the order is reversed: it is Viper Magazine, introducing the album, that describes the pair as memory run backwards, holding together the start of a relationship and its unravelling, both caught in the quieter moments.

The release followed that logic too. June’s single was part two, and the official site lists four singles among which part one does not appear.

They are the only place where a title repeats almost exactly. The other double is a different kind of thing: “The Painter Interlude”, a minute and sixteen, sits right before “The Painter”, which runs nearly five.

Before Eve

The road here was long. The first releases date from 2019, and the first proper record is the EP Sadly, I Still Love You, five tracks put out on 26 January 2024.

That EP, the label says, carried his songs into MTV’s Catfish and Paramount’s SkyMed. The label also credits one of its songs, “If I Ever Feel Better”, with more than six hundred thousand plays.

A run of videos grew around Eve as well. The official site lists four, one per single, and three of them are co-directed with the filmmaker Justin Kaminuma.

The album closes with “I Ran So Far Away”, three and a half minutes that the write-ups single out for their strings. After one EP and seven years of singles, it is the first single block of work Evenson has handed over.