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“I really wanted to make a song that was empowering for people and a bit of a strut song.” –Jazmin Bean

“This song is for anyone who knows what it’s like to watch someone cross over, and what it feels like to be caught between worlds.” –Silent Planet

“it was a very intentional reestablishing [of] what the dialogue was going to be with the way we created music. It seemed like in order to not reproduce the way we performed punk ten years previously, we were trying to reencounter it.” –Max Nordile

“A lot of my childhood was around East LA. Cumbia has been in the background my whole life.” –Beck

“I've been saving up my anger.” –Josie Edwards

“Listening back now, I’m so sad for the person I was at the time, and the way I allowed myself to be treated.” –Rainsford

“‘Take Me Home’ speaks of that special safe place everybody wants to return to when things are going wrong.” –Torus

“The innocence that you have before you're cheated and destroyed by all the people that hurt you and turn you into this monster.” –Mixi Demner

“balancing Rhye’s signature sensuality with a renewed sense of lightness.” –Acid Stag

“are there spaces where it’s better to say ‘I can handle this’ than ‘I love this’” –Amanda Palmer

“There were unspoken understandings of what we wanted to do. That’s not normal. We immediately felt this kinship.” –Ela Minus

“Being okay with anger and love at the same time.” –Crystal Pak

“Rather than simply releasing songs, VANITY build elaborate theatrical worlds where music, film, fashion, and performance become inseparable.” –Daily Entertainment World

“That moment of coming to terms with the fact that you still care and want to keep caring.” –Love Spells

“This release is dedicated to my late oldest brother. It’s been five years since he passed... He never heard me sing, not once, because I never imagined I would be making music.” –Dearveni

“I have a fascination with the impermanent nature of human emotion.” –Daniel James Elliott

“It captures what summer used to feel like. The video was made on 16mm film and there are fireworks, smashed up jaguars, hillbilly hot tubs, and rocking out.” –BAILEN