I’ve always had a theory that our souls come and go at their own volition . Our 5 th record, titled, Forever, I’ve been being born, is an example of this experience and the patience one must learn to have while they await the return of their essence (or however you define the soul) after a seemingly fatal blow forces it’s escape and disappearance, or dissipation. Sometimes I think trauma runs deeper then the psyche and the flesh or bone, affecting the very core of our being, which is the part that exists out of time…its not weeks months or years, but centuries…millennia. One waits.

For the better part of a decade I had to leave many of my past associations behind and fall into a life where silence and distance took precedence over just about everything. I do not claim that this personal journey will be reflected in our music to the listener, as it is simply our journey—but I do know it’s a true sonic etching of everything we ever were, and have become, with the evolving backdrop and the strange emotional template we are all passing through and into, during a collectively difficult time.

We tried to run away from ourselves in an era where sinister undertones were percolating in the collective unconscious , and it was clear to us that the music seemed to have other things in mind. It kept bringing us back together (Phil and I) despite ourselves and despite the external forces seemingly working against us. Maybe this sounds presumptuous to some, but its how it truly seems to be playing out for us.

This album really is a true distillation of all our past albums, with the exception that the world changed and lyrically I think it reflects transmissions I was receiving from the collective unconscious, during a time where we were indeed being led into the dire-ness of this moment, where very little makes or made sense.

“Oh, my gentle chaperone, this is where I stay, but this is not my home”