07/12/2022
To everyone who watched/listened to “How Far Apart” yesterday: THANK YOU! Holy s**t, what an incredible welcome back! Amid the flurry of announcements, We wanted to take a moment to give you all a little insight into the album we are so excited about.
A note from Ben Jorgensen
Back in 2020, at the start of the pandemic, I decided to take on the task of finishing writing a concept album that I had the idea for for many years but was never able to bring to life. “The Rain Museum” was originally a short story I wrote years ago about a post-apocalyptic Earth and a mysterious museum in the middle of the desert that attracted stragglers from what was left of humanity to come marvel at relics from the old world. Weaving the story into a concept album was going to be my little quarantine project. But right around that time, something unfortunate and unexpected happened in my life. Just as I was beginning the writing process, my marriage of nearly eight years and basically my entire life with it fell apart. The one thing that I had in my life to divert my attention from what I was going through was the creative process of writing the album… so I decided to just push through and keep working on the record and on this world I was trying to breathe life into… but the more I pushed, the more I noticed something weird starting to happen. Because I couldn’t ignore what I was going through personally, I started writing myself and what I was going through into the story itself and into the world of the album that I had been creating for this concept record. What came out the other side was a melding of what I was going through on top of the bones of the other world that I was piecing together. “The Rain Museum” was initially titled that because of the literal meaning it had to the museum in the story. The title now also applies to what it turned into… an album about being forced to stare at and deal with the moments in our lives that can tumble out of the shadows and completely derail us. I just hope it will speak to people going through their own dark times, as my favorite art certainly helped me get through mine. Can’t wait to share the whole thing with all of you. -ben
