Music is about extracting emotion out of a listener. It's about momentarily removing someone from reality and through the sheer power of language and tone making a listener cry, laugh, shudder or simply smile. To have that brief connection through an artistic endeavor and have it manifest and create a profound affect on others, even if that connection only lasts a second, is to create a bonding experience among complete strangers. A number of artists have this sort of impact. Take Jimmy Eat World or Taking Back Sunday for example, both artists have songs rife with impactful moments like these. Moments where you awaken from that brief period in time when your mind is solely focused on one particular chorus or one specific line that means so much more than the words being spoken or the guitars being played that the meaning sends chills down your spine. It's my hope that this music whisks you away for just that moment. That you become temporarily removed from the daily grind of work or school, and that in that moment you feel just a little more alive because of it.