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Editor’s Note:

Album reviews can be an iffy thing, because while negative should never exist in the first place, and good ones can read like poetry, no one can truly and accurately speak for the artist except for, well, the artist. But it’d be an obscene understatement if I told you I’m sitting on cloud nine today with this post. Mikal Cronin has long been one of music’s most exciting musicians, and it’s been a long time coming for his solo album debut; easily becoming of this year’s greatest releases. Thankfully, today’s review doesn’t come from me or some other two-bit writer, but straight from the source himself. Mikal Cronin was more than kind enough to write a little insight into the writing and recording on each of the ten songs off his S/T debut. A million thanks to Mikal for not only agreeing to this, but doing a brilliant job of it, (just because I wrote editor above, rest assured I changed not a word of what he wrote). You’ll just have to read on to see how brilliant…

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