My old high school choir friend is the singer and mastermind for this band.  I wasn't best friends with him or anything, but I think we had a connection back then.    

Kind of funny, I actually didn't really like his music, even though it seemed like I was "supposed" to since I went to high school with him and everything, but I think he is moving more in a direction I like with this one.  I know he received a lot of heat for supposedly brushing off sexual misconduct allegations against his former band manager, and now he seems to be trying to figure out how to reconcile some decisions he made.  I look forward to hearing the full album.