Claire Cronin – What the Night is Thinking
Michael Cromier – Foghorn
Ylayali – little caterpillar graveyard
Forrest Moody & Jake Bellissimo – Selige Sehnsucht
Grotto Terrazza – Was Leben Will Muss Sterben
Trying – If I Don’t Get a Job
Giant in The Lighthouse – Sprinting
Soften – Iridescent
Champ Major – Abbeville
Grebes – Plum
Jack M. Senff – Old Days
Sam Lynch – Not My Body
Tyler Key – Change My Mind
Ē – Afraid of the Ocean
Dehd – Wild
Pancho and the Wizards – Rot
TV People – Healthier Days
Plastic Cactus – Mystery Boy
Bibi Club – Jean Rene
It’s Sunday – Comme Un Fool
Little Slugger – Impossible
runnner – fan on
Hostxess – Time
omes – wyd
Oliver Ray – Ol’ Coyote
Will Johnson – Cornelius
Merival – No Brakes
My Father’s Son – Dust to Rust
Jordan Klassen – Virtuous Circle
Ditty – Deathcab

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Mixed and mastered by Mike Kenway (William Bonney, In Ghosts), Good To Know features appearances from Brian Morgante (DEADHORSE, Flesh and Bone Design), Shannon Lee Stott-Rigsbee (Tyler Daniel Bean, Adrian Ardvark), his wife Em Randall and Arthur Shroeder (After Ours), all working to illuminate Jack M. Senff’s wistful delivery. Concerned with the inexorable flow of time and the way it colours our experiences of love and loss, Senff uses his pensive lilt to craft a nuanced and emotive sound.

We’re happy to share a video for the single ‘Old Days’ by way of introduction to the album. Fully on-board with the record’s themes, and drawing on Chris Staples as inspiration, the song presents a kind of melancholic fondness, where the compulsive need to change butts up against the affection for things as they stand. “Picked a point on a map and said I’m going there,” Senff sings, “with all my clothes and old guitars in the backseat.” The destination is not important but rather the process of moving, as though through change will eventually come some form of answer. “Restless heart, I thought: be still,” he continues, “If this don’t settle me then nothing will.”

Of course, instigating change means losing something of the present, and the song’s Western twang is just as concerned with what stands to be lost. Indeed, there is something of a melodramatic air to the sound, a cowboy self-sacrifice and commitment to unshaped dreams, where the ideals of past and future force the present into a constant, if vague sense of yearning—the suspicion that the better times have been and gone balanced by the insistent hope that something special is waiting just over the horizon.

It was a blue goodbye
when I said I’d see you before long
Just look for me when the spring comes
I’ll sing you the light of a new song

Good To Know You will be released on the September 6th via Skeletal Lightning.

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