You Are the Dream Star
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What are the events that define your life? To this question most people would probably respond reflexively with big-ticket items like breakups, graduations, marriage, etc., but how much do those things really shape your outlook, the way you interact with the world? There is, perhaps, a case to be made that far more influential to your life are small things; trivial, familiar things. The way sleep feels better when you’re blowing something off. The way you always burn your popcorn because you get distracted and leave it in the microwave too long. The way you’ve been obstinately refusing to update your phone software because you’re annoyed by the little pop-up messages trying to impose their will on you. These things, perhaps, are much more “you” than how you present yourself on important days; days you know to be important; “you’ll remember this day for the rest of your life” days.
This is an album for ordinary days. For days you while away performing slight variations on the same tasks. For days you spend in their entireties looking forward to something else. This album was written by four guys who got together sporadically over a summer to play Mario Party, watch “Cheers,” and jam. There were no great, theatrical events experienced during its creation, yet this album is very earnestly ours. In these songs there exists a reverie, a memory of a summer spent goofing off with friends; we can’t wait to hear the memories you make while listening to it. So listen. Listen in class when the teacher isn’t looking. Listen in your car with the windows down. Listen during all the ordinary days that comprise your extraordinary life so that one day, years from now, you might hear one of these songs by chance and smile the way you do when you return to a familiar place. (--Travis)
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