Tracklist:

1. Condition of Us
2. How Do You Love a Man
3. October
4. Empty Sympathy
5. Rock Song
6. XO Skeleton
7. Ouroboros
8. Zipolite
9. Outrun the Sun

These nine extraordinary songs are human-scale and intimate, with chord changes like the shifting of limbs. ‘october’, brings us right inside the protective cloak of kisses (or ‘XO SKELETON’) cast by love and memory; at the same time, it explores the spookiness of that space, the movement of invisible spirits, like a saxophone rippling through a hall of mirrors. Other tracks were informed by Engle’s participation in ‘Song A Day,’ a COVID-era invitation-only songwriters’ circle, where La Force worked alongside musicians like Leslie Feist, Maggie Rogers, Beck, and Big Thief’s Buck Meek.