Why Medicine

TRACKS Side A The Sound of a Choice I Want to Believe It Ascension When the Burden is Armor Couldn’t Belong Busy Signal Side B Years Disappeared 8 Years Today While It Lasts Well, Alright The Darkness of Prayer Why Medicine RELEASE DATE 11/07/2025 Vinyl edition is limited to 100 copies. Why Medicine, the new album from Portland songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Selzer, is both stark and luminous, confronting the weight of trauma, silence, and survival with unflinching honesty. Across twelve songs, Selzer weaves stories of abuse, generational wounds, and fragile belonging, circling the ways people cope through armor, faith, medicine, or denial. Yet within the darkness are fleeting sparks of light: the sound of a choice, the possibility of change, the faint persistence of grace. Rich but restrained arrangements frame the album like bookends of memory. Strings, pedal steel, Mellotron, gospel organ, clarinet, and trumpet drift through Selzer’s guitar