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this album encompasses many songs written from the inception of this band in winter 2023 going through summer 2024, as well as a song written back in 2022 for an older band. there wasn’t a throughline we walked into this album trying to adhere ourselves to, but as it came together, a word our friend leah once used in an article about us when describing our lyrics was “defeat.” that particularly resonated with me, because yes, these songs feel like a list of failures in my relationships and path in life, but in spite of it all, we have fun. you gotta have fun.

we had discussed with bridget about recording the album towards the end of 2024, and we were planning on doing it in january 2025 in this hot studio space lil slugger had commandeered in old city. perhaps too fitting for the theme of this album, on christmas 2024, the studio flooded, which some might say threw a monkey wrench in our plans. bridget was able to pull some strings, however, and we were able to start our recording at hidden fortress, where matt and bridget managed to crank out drums for the entire album in two days. we then proceeded to hop around numerous basements and apartments, going around work schedules, trying to record everything (i even made bridget drive us out to haverford so i could bust into my old college and play piano), and after four and a half months, we had finally finished recording. we then were finally able to send everything over to jack shirley (who has produced many albums we LOVE and you can just email him if you want him to work on your stuff) to make it sound pretty, which we think he did a great job at. now that the album was done, we got a lot of help from our friend jordan of we’re trying to help get it out to the masses, and he’s the reason you’re reading this now.

big thanks to: alex and scar of sodaseas for your talents; hammer, dom, cat, and leah for your voices; kieran for letting us use hidden fortress, pru for letting us be loud in your basement (r.i.p. the meadow), gordon for fixing up matts omnichord and making marins pedals, sam for helping us get into drexel, ruby for your talented photography skills, annika and their parents for providing us their dogs: macy, whiskey, june, and birdie; our friends in haunt dog, slow burning daydream, pennydog, precious little life, heavy metal chess club, king rat/under review, dumpcake, necto, it never entered my mind, fortress, and anyone and everyone else who has supported us. we love you all!