Hope Loop

by American Grandma

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“Hope Loop” –– the second single from American Grandma’s Rare Knives of Light –– represents the persistence of hope and memory. “Folding over time,” singer Jensen Keller briefly details and juxtaposes a few scenes, “debating politics” and riding on the back of a motocycle, before gently but surefootedly delivering the record’s eponymous line: “Rare knives of light found me throughout.” That phrase, Keller says, is an evocation of the sense that while one may find oneself lost in spiritual or emotional darkness, “there will always be that flash of something that will keep you on track or at least remind you that you’re not completely fucked.” Gentle, electronic rhythms undergird the ringing cycles of guitar, recalling Slowdive’s Pygmalion.

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Folding over time, you are the only one
Folding over time, like I was one of them
I only became myself three years now
Rare knives of light found me throughout

Folding over time, you are the only one
(Debating politics and personal experience)
Folding over time, like I was one of them
(Back of a motorbike leaving campus)
I only became myself three years now
(Pick up the white phone til I answer)
Rare knives of light found me throughout
(They’re dying and I’m not sure who’s going first)

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released March 22, 2023
Lyrics and vocals by Jensen Keller
All songs written, arranged and performed by Jensen Keller and Caden Marchese
Additional instrumentation by Madeline Johnston and Bryce Slavick
Mixed and engineered by Caden Marchese
Mastered by Corey Coffman
Art by George Bangs

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