I feel like New Canaan is your signature song, in that it has all the song elements that fit into your artistic style. Would you agree?
no. it is more like a signature 2009 'travel' song (it was mainly written in 2009, and is similar to many others that i wrote, on journeys to places) but some of the resolutions of the verses, like particularly the end of the 3rd, are more typical of how i would write and/or fix songs during 2013 (this one got polished up and edited like hundreds of others did during 2013) and recording wise, it is typical of what i might do in 2014, because it was recorded in 2014. certain recording elements of late 2015, such as more vocal harmonies, are not there. but i think the 2009 'travel' feel is overwhelmingly what characterizes the song