Jean wanted to give the songs neutral, innocuous names so listeners could bring their own imaginations to the tracks. One of the titles she mentioned to Ronnie as an example was fork. It could mean the fork in the road, the fork on your plate, Sartre’s flying fork of Nausea, the action of sticking an object with tines.

But for me this gamelan like song built around Dave’s echo guitar patterns and Lafrae’s African thumb piano work is about a fork in the road. Indie was dying just as quickly as the corporate dinosaurs it fought. Never before had so many of the old formulas suddenly failed. Whole touring circuits disappeared: great clubs like Small Intestine, Jabberjaw, 17 Nautical Miles, indie distributors and record stores disappeared with them.

The Internet loomed as the portal to our future. But the future wasn’t here yet and giving away music for free is a poor option for musicians like Jean who have no other steady livelihood.

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