This meditation on the past and present was honed to an edge by a period of intense personal trauma, with Weidman writing the album as his mother slowly succumbed to illness and passed away. “On January 24th, 2022, my mother died after six years of battling breast and brain cancer,” Weidman says. “For two months from Thanksgiving onward I watched my mother fade away. I watched her take her last breath at home with my father, brothers, and sister.” Closer ‘I Remember Your Name’ confronts this head on, written in memory of his mother but serving to capture the mood of a record both celebrating and mourning what once was.

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