Complaining about things like that makes a local musician sound like, well, like an asshole. But at the same time our lives are generally really formless. Your days are numbered. And at this point, as soon as you're not lukewarm or lukehot or whatever, it's over. They've forgotten about you - your label first and foremost.
People get dropped after their second record - the bands are the first ones to get burnt.
The deck falls on you in a real final way. Whether epiphany or gradual transformation, over the course of the last year, Searles has worked himself into a position where those types of worries are less at issue. Most obvious is the fact that when you start making good money, financial concerns start to erode. It's great in some ways. The highs are really high and the lows are really low.