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When I hear these, Im instantly reminded of piling into my best and oldest friends beater car at odd hours of the night and staying out all night doing nothing but just going somewhere. His shit didnt have any kind of aux, so wed both carry around CDs all the time or make mixes or burn whole albums to play in the car; I have such fond memories of scattering to pick out my stack for the night, when it was decided in the moment that we were hanging out, before he got to my house to scoop. It wasnt uncommon for him to just adopt shit I left in his car, and there were a few instances where Id force him to listen to stuff just by leaving it on his passenger seat until he took it. We had a crew of homies, and his cousin who was both our best friend and my unrequited crush, and the three of us would frequently take late night trips to the 24 hour donut spot, even though it was an hour away. Wed pack the car and drive out to the woods to dick around and smoke, or go to Boston at 1 AM and walk from the Commons to Fenway and through Chinatown and shit and just see what we encountered, or just chill on our boys stoop or in a basement talking shit. We used to hangout in his basement at his moms crib and get crazy fucked up and watch stupid shit on youtube on a giant old CRT that only kinda worked, but we couldnt be too loud because of his sister and we had to sneak out the bulkhead every time we wanted to smoke, even in the middle of January when it was -2 degrees.

One time in particular, he and I decided to go to Philly to see one of our favorite bands and visit his cousin, who had moved to go to school there. It was just us two, the whole 7+ hour ride. We were 18, and it was my first time leaving New England without a real adult, my first time in Philly, and the first time I felt freedom. For this trip a particularly huge selection of music was needed, and my So It Goes CD, a relative rarity thanks to poor distribution, was an absolute essential; we had seen Ratking the year prior, once opening for Earl Sweatshirt and once headlining, skipping some graduation-related bullshit to go to the latter and smoking with them in some sketchy car after. This album was in constant rotation the whole way there; also in the mix was a burned copy of Mac Demarcos 2, Lightning Bolts long-awaited newest record, Aphex Twins Syro, and countless mix CDs, both accumulated from previous goonery and tailor made for the drive, as well as others I dont remember.

I have such a vivid memory of driving through a wintery New York City with him, ice cold with a seemingly visible, frigid harshness to everything in the winter sun, and while I have no earthly clue if its what was playing at that moment, Ratking immediately floods my mind with that image. The show was great, the weekend even better abd seeing our friend was wonderful. We had awkward interactions with her college friends, and we saw the city, and it was great. We got up the day after the show bright and early to hit the road home. During our drive, the infamous Polar Vortex of 2015 was hitting the northeast particularly hard.

The drive home got more intense as we went, as flurries begat snow, begat heavy snow, begat blizzard, begat whiteout. I again have an incredibly vivid memory of driving through New York in progressively worse snow, and I again cannot recall what was actually playing at the time, but the image is brought instantly to my mind by the sound of these records, 700Fill in particular, despite the fact that it wasnt released in any capacity until several days later. We had left at around 10 AM; by thevtime we hit Connecticut, it was dark, and there was easily a foot of snow on tbe roads as plows had yet to hit the road. Halfways through the state, ice build-caused one of his wipers to snap clean off, and he was in an increasingly panicked state as we continued.

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