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    "comment": "Jesse Syke's first release in 14 years will finally see the light on Black Friday's edition of Record Store Day 2025; more info here: https://tinyurl.com/msuhcwh2\n\nThey'll also be performing a free and all ages show live at Easy Street Records on Friday, November 28th at 7pm to celebrate their RSDBF release!\n\nSykes reveals, \"This album is our attempt to create elegant folk and sometimes ragged, cosmic, heart rendered songs full of eulogies and laments. When we started recording it,  I remember saying, 'Play the songs as if the edge of a butterfly wing was brushing against your cheek in the dark while you’re holding a small child.'\n\n\"I wanted to connote tenderness and a state of grace in the wake of resolution. I was coming out of a bad depression at the time, relieved I wanted to pick up my guitar again after an insanely long dry spell, but also I was paying homage to the knowledge of an emerging, menacing undertone in the collective psyche that was bigger than me, which might have been what compelled me to pick it up that day back in 2015.\n\n\"I must also mention that I wrote it right before our beloved dog died. She was almost 16 at the time and I knew it was coming, her death. She was at my feet when it was written, so she’s enmeshed in the body of the song. I was consoling myself and my future self, knowing she’d be gone by the time the song would see the light of day. Songs are time machines. Portals. She’s right there inside of it now, eating her snow, which was all she wanted to do the last few weeks of her life.\n\n\"It is with great pleasure and humility that we bring you, Forever, I’ve Been Being Born. Listen in the dark.\" https://tinyurl.com/4cbv46rz",
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