Forever, I’ve Been Being Born is a suite of masterful, emotive songs filled with themes of magical thinking, emotional dislocation, death, and transformation. In the making for ten years, the album centers around the power of Jesse’s transcendent voice, which has never been more beautiful, evocative, and hauntingly intimate. Phil Wandscher masterfully frames these songs with classic and fractured tones, creating a duet of vulnerability and strength often blurring the lines of folk and psychedelia. The album also features exquisite contributions from Marissa Nadler.

UNCUT magazine recently picked it as Americana Album of The Month, calling it “rapturous psyche-folk melancholia.” 9/10

“This album is our attempt to create elegant folk and sometimes ragged, cosmic, heart rendered songs full of eulogies and laments. When we started recording this album, I remember saying, “Play the songs as if the edge of a butterfly wing was brushing against your cheek in the dark while you’re holding a small child.” I wanted to connote tenderness and a state of grace in the wake of resolution—paying homage to the creeping knowledge of an emerging, menacing undertone forming in our collective psyche at the time. In hindsight, the delay in releasing this record has been a bit of a blessing, as the lyrics seem more poignant now, transcending our own internal voices and psyches. Maybe because there is an innate fragility on this record, it almost feels like a form of resistance in these times, as heavy handed as that might sound;)

As the world shares its collective crisis, so we too, share our songs…And it is with great pleasure and humility that we bring you, Forever, I’ve Been Being Born. Produced by Robb Davidson.

Listen in the dark."

-J. Sykes