It is with much bittersweet nostalgia that I’m announcing our last show in New Orleans for a while. In case you haven’t heard, Jenn and I are moving to Japan to teach English and to travel throughout Asia. It’s been something that we’ve wanted to do for years and for us, now is the best time to do it. We’ll be back sooner or later, and as of now, we plan to continue with the band for a long long time. It’s something that we look forward to every time we play a show, work on a new song, go into the recording studio, etc. Even if it’s always in a smaller capacity and it costs us time and money to keep it up, this is what we love to do and we’ll continue to do throughout our lives.

We’re surely going to miss Marshall, one of our closest friends and the best drummer that I’ve ever known (or have seen perform, in my humble opinion). We’ve been incredibly lucky to have the chance to share a band with him. It’s my hope that we’ll resume playing together once we get back, picking up right where we left off or even further ahead. It’s easy to take things for granted, but playing music with my best friends is a volume of experiences that I’ll always remember as some of the best times of my life. I can’t be more grateful for these experiences.

I apologize for the melodrama, but I don’t get to do this very often so I’m indulging this one time. Thanks for all of you guys who come out to see us play and support us even on our very sketchy timelines and through our long hiatuses. For this, we finally have a record worthy of releasing. I’m listening to the masters right now for the first time and I can’t believe how happy I am to hear them. I’d like to thank Chris George and Daniel Majorie, with whom we tracked most of the record, Nick Lauve for his countless hours of mixing, tweaking, and playing on the record, Rick Nelson for his mixing makeover and awesome string tracks, Larry Luther for adding the final layers of polish, and everyone else who supported us throughout this epic ordeal of making a record. Also, the guys from Antenna Inn for letting us use their vibraphones and rhodes, Pat Bailey for his guitar layery and Chris Colombo for laying down some sweet pedal steel guitar.

Please come out and see us off at our last show in New Orleans. We’ll be playing with Autotomii and the Other Planets.

That’s the end of my lame speech.

Much much love,
Matt