Cosmic Urchin, the 2015 EP that we were able to salvage from Post-Apocalyptic Wishlist, was a success in terms of education and creative growth. But in our attempts to finish an album, we sometimes snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. What was most challenging was not producing music we loved so much as maintaining the high quality we aspired to throughout a 4+ minute song. I was dj’ing a little in Nola and was interested in whether we could make snippets of iterations of our songs in progress flow as a continuous mix, and learn about each other from selecting our favorite moments of multiple iterations of songs in progress. The initial version of this 2015 mixtape collected and sequenced many of the snippets we loved and helped us communicate and grow our taste and aesthetic toward each other. In the process, we recaptured the simple joy of creating together and haven’t looked back since. Imagine a giant record with the needle skipping across the demos of greatest hits of a band that only exists in your imagination. The music collected here reflects the range of our vision for SWB, and we look forward to sharing a fully realized version of this vision with some new twists in our upcoming album, Aleutian Megathrust. Thanks for listening, please stay safe, and remember we are all in this together.