It’s frightening to think that we’ve finished this album. There are countless tears, laughs, and romantic moments embedded in this record. Our entire life has been poured into what you hear. It’s scary to think of what may come next, and what it will take to create something to follow this. It’s scary to think of what will become of our relationship - as lovers, musicians, life-partners, and stakeholders in one another’s dreams. It feels like the end of this creation signifies the beginning of so much more. Two years ago we decided to record an album by ourselves. Just us. We knew it was the right thing to do in order to express ourselves fully and create something that was bigger than us; something of which we were genuinely proud. So, we invested in some gear and travelled halfway across the world. We busked in Melbourne, hitch-hiked thousands of kilometres across Australia, worked on farms, and slept on beaches in Bali. We thought we would record our album during this time, that we would experience, write, and record simultaneously. But we just weren’t ready. When we returned to North America after five months abroad, we headed home to Banff, Alberta, for a carefree summer of friendship, super moons, and train station jams. We lived out of our truck, wrote songs, created art, and collaborated with loved ones and musicians. When autumn began to sneak into the mountains, we meant to escape to the tall, towering redwoods of California - but our plans were altered by the painful news of Brandon’s brother’s suicide. Brett’s sudden death completely reshaped our future in a way I could never have imagined. There were now so many emotions needing to be captured and, because of that, the album transitioned from a completely self-reflective speculum to an ode to a loved one lost. As Brett’s beneficiary, Brandon received $25,000, which was the incredibly bittersweet gesture that helped us record and create this album with more comfort and less responsibility. In a time period of over thirteen months, we recorded the album in Rock Creek, Vancouver, Nanaimo, and Banff. Our relationship as a couple ended and re-started about three or four times. As we were nearing completion of the album we rented a room in Surrey, BC, and were ridiculously paranoid that our gear would be stolen. In the end, our gear was safe, but my antique engagement ring fell into the hands of, presumably, our down-and-out roommate. But once the sadness of losing something so special had settled, we ultimately saw the silver lining in the fact that he chose jewelry over the computer that held our album files. What a whirlwind experience. I feel both free and fearful as we release this record into the world. This is for brothers, forefathers, mothers, sisters, lovers - those whose existence we cherish. Jimmy and Brettsky, we love you.