"INTRO" by THE YOUNG ROMANTICS

From the band: "The album was inspired by Collier's own first year of marriage. "My wife was given three months to live after a damaged nerve caused gastrointestinal paralysis," he says. "She was essentially starving to death. I felt alone as I took care of her and watched her suffer. On drives alone, I just wished there was some kind of music I could blast that could help me feel something. I was so numb. I quickly learned that there's not a lot of music out there for widowers. So I wrote some." 

Fortunately, his wife made a remarkable recovery, and the rest of the album was written to process a complicated, tangled web of emotions. "I want this music to provide catharsis and comfort to those spouses who lose their marriage and find themselves in a caregiver role. It's not the romantic, happy life you envisioned. There can be a lot of grief and anger because of that – and then guilt over feeling sad and angry. I want those people to know they're not alone.""