Toughest thing to mix on the entire album. Synthesizer music for the attention-impaired. If you don't like the current melody, wait five seconds. Song name comes from my workplace addiction - I was going through a bag of cough drops weekly…

The last track from my RPM Challenge album, "The Loudest Silence". The story is loosely based on something I read, but there's a lot of poetic interpretation involved. It deals with people who spend a lot of time staring at the stars - like the…

Homage, in various ways, to Bowie, Arcade Fire, Airborne Toxic Event. I wrote most of it while out running on dirt roads near the Cody landfill.

Inspired by the David Brooks book "Bobos in Paradise" and an article I read on the so-called "Prosperity Gospel", which is one of the weirder religious movements I've heard of.

Title is a reference to a 2009 RPM album's title. It is a song about leaving Chicago.

Finally a good cut of this one. Named after Daniel Burnham of Chicago's Burnham Plan, this song is about the downfall of western capitalism. I'm completely unprepared for it myself -- I have no idea what I'll wear.

The *cough* future *cough* mayor of Chicago holding court with his corporate backers.

This song is about George Washington, and how politicians in the *cough* future world this album inhabits *cough* could perhaps use a bit of his character.

This song is a meditation on the concept of freedom.

Again, Jess' lyrics speak for themselves. Man, distorted guitar is tough to mix around.