John Thro (Perpich Arts High School, Music 2021) Releases Album

Congratulations to John Thro (Music 2021) on releasing his newest album, A Week with Annabelle. John graduated with honors from Perpich Arts High School on May 28, 2021. He will study Audio Arts at Columbia College in Chicago in the fall.

John, who goes by Thro for his music, began writing A Week with Annabelle in the summer of 2019, right before attending Perpich as a junior. “The title for the project just came to me at the time. I’ve always liked the name Annabelle and find it equally beautiful as it is haunting,” he recalled. “The only track I had finished for the project at the time, Vampire Pills, was recorded in a two week period in the summer where I was on a heavy dose of antibiotics. I couldn’t go outside in the sun for long. Vampire Pills was a placeholder name for the save file on my laptop but I eventually decided just to keep the name. I had other song ideas written down and pieces recorded in this time, but I went to Perpich and the project was pushed to the side, later to be revisited with a new mindset.”

While attending Perpich, Thro learned a lot more about making and playing music. He learned most of this new knowledge from jamming and collaborating with peers in the music department. “I created songs with other students for class and even made a whole music project with a friend of mine in the department in hopes of finding gigs outside of school,” he shared. “The music I had been working on while attending school at Perpich was starting to get really abstract and leaning more towards a soundscape art style than a song to bop your head to.”

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