These tracks were made around the same time as Dream Reasons and the Fiction Wisdom split, and are sort of a set of b-sides, you might say. I think they’re good. Not Dream Reasons good, but good enough to have out. My dad really likes them. So, there’s that.

The whole thing is named after the cardinal directions (in German), and I feel like each one captures something of my perception of the general spirit of each quadrant (particularly if we take “central Europe” as the axis for our compass). The mystical north, the the optimistic west, the austere east, the satisfied south...

Cover art by my venerable dad, Michael Keusch.