Jim and Sam - Good on the Other Side (2023) Hi-Res

For the past few years Jim and Sam have been in a portal. A pandemic baby, isolation, songwriting portal that seems to be leading right back to the same room in the same apartment in the same city that they discovered each other in over thirteen years ago. Although, they’re not the same. Nothing is. This album is a documentation of the nostalgia, fear, anxiety, grief, hope and awareness they have experienced during this time. Some of these songs came quickly while others were like pulling teeth inside the short windows they had to create in. Time exists differently in this portal. They have less of it, but it feels more important now– and they don't take it for granted.

Says Jim, "Having a little person around all the time is a reminder that we are all little people just holding our guts in, while trying to figure out how to make the most of our lives. The work on this record began when we found out Sam was pregnant and we wrote "Space for the Stranger," and ended when we put the finishing touches on the last track, "Leave Los Angeles for Good this Time." After two years of reflecting on our time in this city, what it’s given us and what it’s taken away, we’ve decided to stay. Looking back through the portal now from the other end… we're beginning to finally feel “Good on the Other Side"... or maybe we’re only halfway through."