Man I emotionally beat myself up with the Jar of Flies album. Came out right around the time I got my heart severely broken. I was drinking hard. I’d dropped out of college and was generally rudderless. Pretty much ‘the bottom’. This album spoke to so much of the pain I was going through… putting myself through… the album was a form of self flagellation. A musical cudgel used in an attempt at deepening the scars.
After I finally crawled out of the pit my life had become it took me a long time before I could go back and actually enjoy the album again. Even now songs like I Stayed Away pick at old wounds.
Great album. Despite my relationship to it.
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