This album was more than an album, it was a compass: whose lyrics were scrawled over torn jeans and cheap shoes, blew holes in my wallet on at least 4 occasions (twice on cassette, twice on CD), only to be lost and bartered to friends, weary but like-minded travellers looking for respite in the abstract algorithms of soft and loud, from dawn to dusk, twilight to starlight, played under different skies, in different lands, at different times, and even though I was always changing, always wandering – I was never lost. This was the compass that brought me home, reminded me of who I was, and who I may yet become – and for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.