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Audiotree, and played a variety of songs from The Fall of Troy, Just Like Vinyl, and a cover of Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box". Despite being called a one-of-a-kind performance, Erak has since played two other shows with Chon. At the Audiotree Music Festival 2016 in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
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in 2016 independently to critical and fan acclaim alike. The band had been hinting at new material in 2019 that eventually became 2020's
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