According to the Puritan Themes press release, the album’s lead single “Chain Gang,” is “an imaginary take on if Cat Stevens had smoked a ton of salvia and taken a much darker route within the world of dense, story-telling songwriting.”

Experiences with salvia can be impactful. Fun trips where textures replicate themselves across various surfaces, or terrifying experiences where death comes to collect you while floating through abyss until, finally, reality snaps back in and you start screaming, “What the fuck!”

There are familiar aspects on Puritan Themes, melodies that seem classic, as if existing at the edges of memory, as well as unexpected textures—sounds difficult to source, creating a narrative of sorts. There is darkness, too, though a darkness born more of awe and beauty than th

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