I wanted to graduate from the world of lo-fi, and I wanted to create the most normal album possible - the opposite
of all the weird music I had been making. I wanted to make music that was clear and open and relateable and embraced
the listener in a big enveloping hug. I did not plan for the album to be filled with so many spiritual themes, but
those were the songs that came out the purest, with the most flow - and they eventually fit together into an archetypal narrative
arc that made sense and was natural. Even simply deciding which songs to include and in what order took years.
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