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track released May 15, 2012
Written, recorded, and produced by Nick Principe
The Well // Portland, Oregon // Fall 2011
Vocals engineered by Victor Nash @ 1996 Studios
Mixed by Victor Nash and Nick Principe
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion Studios
Despite the title, implying "delight," the haunting lyrical subjects of Archangel Gabriel's messages from G-d, silence and the disaster of the world, a hare and an owl's bloodthirsty, bloodied love story, and a sister's painfulness after a failed love, this is a "delight" wrapped up for a melancholic hopelessness that wrestles the listener's catharsis free from the coils of a broken, twisted heart.... aurals
This is my absolute favorite album of all time, words can not even begin to describe how much I love it. It nails the concept of dementia as an album perfectly 100/10. I don't know if I could find anything better than this. rod
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