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Alderson Loop

from Ceremony of Leaving by Former Lives

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Ever feel like your brain needs a software update? An Alderson Loop is a seemingly endless loop in programming where an exit condition is available but inaccessible in the current implementation of the code. The first single by Former Lives explores this computing metaphor as a way to describe feeling broken and obsolete.

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lyrics

Simulate our needs for the runtime
but always leave something out
Too slow to find new features and fixes
the past is keeping us down

I think we need a code review
We’re lost inside this reference loop

Experience reveals all the old bugs
but there’s no time go back
to reassess a sequence for success
Can we just throw it all out?

It’s overwhelming
my mind is failing

I think we need a code review
We’re lost inside this reference loop

Now it’s too late
It’s much too late

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from Ceremony of Leaving, track released January 21, 2022
Written, performed, and produced in 2021 by
Sean Joseph Klassen and Sabrina Valezquez

Mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman
Mastered by Dave McNair

Song artwork by Sheri Smith

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Former Lives Burlington, Vermont

a love letter to overdriven guitars, analog synthesizers, and arcane pop music

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