This album came six years after Craig Minowa's son died suddenly at the age of two. Listen to the album with that in mind and the "meaning of the number 8" will blow your mind, even more than before. This song is about how he has come to terms with the the past eight years, the life and the death, thinking of how his son would be turning eight if he were still alive. Much of the album does the same. It's incredible how much strength it would take to turn an event like that in to music like this, absolutely amazingly intelligent and beautiful
This album came six years after Craig Minowa's son died suddenly at the age of two. Listen to the album with that in mind and the "meaning of the number 8" will blow your mind, even more than before. This song is about how he has come to terms with the the past eight years, the life and the death, thinking of how his son would be turning eight if he were still alive. Much of the album does the same. It's incredible how much strength it would take to turn an event like that in to music like this, absolutely amazingly intelligent and beautiful