"There were never any liner notes written for this album, because it was scrapped before it could be written.
This album was intended to be about my life, which, at the time, hadn't been going very well. I write all about this in distant memory form in Old Times' Sake. In retrospect, I decided to abandon this album because I didn't like the direction I was writing in whatsoever. I feel that just by looking at the lyrics of Never Something Good you can see that. It's a very edgy song, and whereas I like to think with most of my work I have enough metaphoricity to stop a listener from immediately detecting my young age, Never Something Good just sounds like it was written by an annoying teenager. It's annoying.
Blood was fine, I suppose. It's not about much. It's also very edgy. It served as filler on Love, II, though I do wish I had written something a bit better for the second track on my first single.
In Galveston makes me sad sometimes. I had barely written the first verse of it by the time I'd abandoned the project. I finished it for the single that released in May and I like that one 100x more than anything else on here.
United 1951 was under consideration for placement on that single as well and yet I decided against it. I appreciate its existence though, it was the first sign of me breaking out of my edgy, direct, boring, annoying songwriting that filled the rest of this now dead record.
There were a few other songs intended for this one that weren't ever written and died as titles. For some reason I used to write titles before actually writing the song. One called In Destin about a trip I took there in 2023, possibly (?) related to an unreleased track called Going to Destin. I tend to be a bit more subtle with my Goats references now. Another called Wolf in White Van about a book by John Darnielle I like, and a finale track called Someday Something Great.
Here's something great: this album will die a reflection of who I once was. Good riddance."
- Coen Buck