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are all putting the listener in the hot seat. ‘Remembering Never Before’ became sort of a thesis as we moved through the making of it, with the idea of, how do we return to something we’ve never experienced yet as people that have learned so much about ourselves? As people who have changed so drastically over the last couple of years, how do we find hope and moments of pure astonishment? I think it’s the listener’s responsibility to find that for themselves."
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your player: hope or despair. And we unabashedly chose life and love and energy and giving less f***s about what people think and that was liberating for us. That's the energy we tried to capture on
Remember Never Before. It's not ignoring anything we're currently dealing with. On the contrary, it's set in the middle of it all."
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is perhaps July Talk’s most refined collection of music yet. On their fourth record, the now expanded band is approaching their songwriting in a nearly compositional manner, resulting in fuller arrangements and cinematic tones organically clashing with alternative rock riffs and beats. Remember Never
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Before marks a step forward for July Talk, one which, for the better, they may never return from."
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