In July of 2004, Phil Lang moved to San Francisco from South Dakota to attend the University
of San Francisco's Creative Writing program. Lang played music and hadn't met anyone in the
city. In the absence of a social life, he passed the hours writing songs in his one-window studio
apartment. Fellow MFA classmate Chris Hansen was the first person Lang met. Hansen played
music too, and eventually the two mustered up the courage to play in the same room. The next
day, Lang began recording (in Hansen’s apartment) the twenty-some songs that had been


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