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Throughout 2015-2017 both musicians launched successful solo careers: ChrisвЂ™s defined by вЂњpure power-pop goodnessвЂќ (AV Club), and JeffвЂ™s leading to Pitchfork calling him вЂњone of punk rockвЂ™s greatest, most effusive living songwriters.вЂќ Like Chris, Jeff had spent the better part of a decade on the group, and had arrived at the end of an era. Shortly after Chris came to New York knowing his band was ending, Bomb the Music Industry! played their final shows. A year after that, their first LP, 2015вЂ™s LeavinвЂ™ La Vida Loca. Six months later, Antarctigo Vespucci self-released their second EP, IвЂ™m So Tethered. Written and recorded over a few days in a 3ењ†вЂ™ shoebox, 2014вЂ™s Soulmate Stuff was a natural combination of the Springsteen-like excess of Bomb the Music Industry! and the bubblegum melodicism Chris had cultivated in Fake Problems. During that time, they made Antarctigo VespucciвЂ™s first EP, Soulmate Stuff (an album whose name should put to bed any lingering fears). Though neither musician had written collaboratively before, they planned another session a few months later. What if the collaboration was a disaster? But was that a close friendship? Up at the top of the stairs, listening to Chris come up the narrow stairway, Jeff was having similar thoughts. Every few months theyвЂ™d play a show together, and hang for a few hours. Fake Problems and BTMI had toured together once, half a decade earlier. It was only the next day, as Chris was walking up the three flights of stairs to JeffвЂ™s apartment, guitar in hand, that he realized the two of them barely knew each other. The two decided to give writing together a try. At the time, Jeff was fronting the band Bomb the Music Industry!, a Brooklyn-based punk collective that Fake Problems had often crossed paths with on tour. After a few days in the city he ran into his friend Jeff at a party. The idea was to collaborate, to find writing partners, something the musician had never done before. Not knowing what else to do, Chris went to New York. In that time the scrappy group of Floridians had put out two albums on LA label SideOneDummy, toured all over the world, and even landed a few songs on TV. For the last eight years, the one constant in his life had been Fake Problems, the indie punk group he had started as a teenager and successfully steered for almost a decade.

In 2013, Chris Farren faced an uncomfortable certainty: his band was breaking up. It didnвЂ™t work this time but we can try again. Feels like itвЂ™s been forever but that was Friday night.Д¬overed in fake blood, I got bad news from a friend. Gathered up our clothes, we shook hands and then I left. YouвЂ™re so out of my reach.Д«ehind the guest room door, I felt weird and we had sex. Maybe this is just another good thing out of my reach. Maybe this is just another good thing that happens to everybody but me. My trusty lack of confidence, youвЂ™re keeping me alive. On the drive over with the stereo turned off, I sunk into a pit filled with catastrophic thoughts. Precautionary measures in case I change my mind.

Is it all right to be on the darker side,Д«uried underneath a stack of papers on my desk thereвЂ™s a document and a signed $10 check. Will you wanna be here? Will you wanna be here with me? Is it all right to be on the darker side of you and me?ДЄnd when the sunlight melts away, who will you be? When all these guest room nights run out where will I go? Back to the iridescent memories that I chose to leave alone? And would I make it back to find the colors fade just like a sentimental photograph that I need to throw away?ДЄll these nights we spend, I hope theyвЂ™re always worth something. IвЂ™ll be so sad if you fade away from here. If all these perfect lives run out where will we stand? Will I be rendered insignificant, will you still wanna be my friend? Cuz if you donвЂ™t I understand eternally, just know IвЂ™ll always grab ahold of you if you reach out for me.ДЄnd itвЂ™s so weird to navigate these fears. I wanted to see you to see if I still wanted to see you.

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You havenвЂ™t seen my in a long time, but I still walk along the beach at night, IвЂ™m absolutely terrified I canвЂ™t make it on my own.ДЄm I unhappy because IвЂ™m not free, or not free because IвЂ™m unhappy? You havenвЂ™t seen me in a long time but IвЂ™m still 23 and worrying everyone I love is just pretending. Why did I crumble at the thought of you last night?

Are you still 27 and mad at me, watching вЂњBreathlessвЂќ on DVD in the dead of winter 2009? With your long red coat and the tears welling in your eyes?

Are you still sitting at the booth at the Brooklyn Bowl,