Growing up, all I wanted to do was leave my hillbilly pitstop of a hometown... I eventually did leave, and now that I'm gone, my brain fires in sympathetic ways when I think about it. Like what if I went back and made a small town life for my family? Terrible idea, but I think the reason it feels like it would be cool is because I've replaced the lore of growing up smoking ditch weed before geometry class with a more mystical version similar to the world of Kentucky Route Zero. Today's song is a song about being homesick from the game about a more interesting version of the American South I grew up in

I was a 3D artist in LA rollerblading to work at the time of this album's release, and I hated it at first. Midlake's first album very much like a lofi Radiohead, and I was ready for this album to be them heading towards a Kid A phase. Instead, it's like a concept album about living a hardworking homesteader life in early America, and I ended up loving it. I now mark this as the moment in time my life spiraled into becoming a crypto-fronteirsman Americana superfan with a clawhammer banjo habit

"Oh let me not be too consumed with this world. Sometimes I want to go home and stay out of sight for a long time"