I will be releasing all the music I have created in my dismal life slowly over the coming weeks, exclusively on bandcamp, in order to clear out the archives and turn the material over to the world. Most of it is not pretty or even good by most measures, but every single song has had a part in my growth as a human being and for that alone I feel they deserve at least the opportunity to be heard and dissected.

this would be the second official release from the band. there was a limited amount of planning behind it, largely that the songs chosen for the release were either newly written songs (like FMA or September) or songs that i had felt were worthy of release.

the name drawn from a typo in a text, meant to say "we are here", autocorrected to "we are jett".

the photo used was met with much disapproval from kurt's family; it was a photo from a family friend's birthday party that kurt had printed out and hung on my wall. i used it simply because it was there, and for no reason other than that. it is and was a perfect encapsulation of who we were at the time - knucklehead teenagers with inside jokes no one but us would understand to this day. the lettering for the band's name ransom-note-style was pulled from the very first fake album booklet kurt and i made for the band in probably 2005 or so.

we had intended these sessions to be much like the sessions for "this is only a test", but i got carried away, as i would in the future, and went ahead and recorded the bulk of the tracks myself.

my thinking at the time was that if i could record guitar tracks faster, what was the harm in doing so?

well, in doing so, i'd alienate skot, and put a bad taste in kurt's mouth. though, from what i recall, he still recorded all of the bass for this release.

i had been gifted a two track interface by our band teacher, and he lent us a pair of matched overhead mics that i used to record the drums. not knowing how those mics should be used at the time, there is a notable loss of low end on this release. i used the mics in the same way i would have in the past - one on the kick, and one overtop of the snare - but being the mics that they were, the recording lacked the punch of previous recordings. i simply didn't know enough at the time to use the mics properly.

we used those same mics on everything else (the bass was probably DI though), and so that inexperience bore itself out over the whole release to yield a largely painful listen.

three of the five tracks here would see new light on another release, speaking to the songs' respective quality, so i don't hold these recordings as the best representations of the songs by any means.

but as a once official release by the band, i feel they deserve documentation here as i go thru the archives.