The album Afterglow gives sound to different stories told through sparse yet poetic lyrics. We follow a French monk abandoning his monastery in the mountains(Into Great Silence); a young man obsessed with holding on to a love affair (Afterglow); a ghost who no longer has anyone to haunt (Love Cadaver); a couple of teenagers on a long bus ride to pick up drugs (Said the Afternoon); and even the abstract voice of History itself imagining a devastating yet new course for humanity (Father Me). The music for every track sets the tone for each individual voice and gives drama and catharsis to our desires for both continuity and change, our impulses to hold on to what we have while the world inevitably transforms itself and us.