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The full band joins her in a beautiful night time sway, but it’s still no use: “I got all my friends around, but I’m not home til I’m alone with you.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the record follows this relationship as it tumbles through loneliness and longing, to elation and joy, to pain and anger, and finally to its foggy close, where Devora admits, “If I got to do it all again, I’d find you there like I did back then.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleasing on Memory Music, \u003ci\u003eAll Again\u003c\/i\u003e is principally an enveloping, rich indie-rock record, changing dance partners between cheek-to-cheek ’60s pop sweetness, ’90s alt-rock dirt, spacious and pained emo, and the songcraft and melodicism of the sharpest acoustic singer-songwriter acts. 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That allowed them to use studio time to expand the record’s sonic boundaries. “We had a lot more room to play with some of the ear candy we’ve always wanted to explore and get weirder in the studio,” says Glass. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose elements lend a physicality and playfulness to the memory and emotions that unfurl through All Again. “We’re trying to tell the story of when you look back at an important relationship,” says Glass. “Years go by, and the more you reflect on it, it becomes more warped and the facts become a little bit more murky. 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