‎Harrison Lemke - Forever Only Idaho (2021)

This is an album about the Coeur d’Alene High School graduating class of 2006 in 2018, wherever they ended up — just turned thirty or about to, in and out of hospitals, in and out of jail, in or out of debt, trying to make it in New York or L.A. or still living at home, but above all wondering what happened to each other and wondering what might’ve been if things had been different (different how? no one knows). It’s about the self-absorbed, self-hating small American town, and the way its anxieties and failures follow its children wherever they go. It’s about reconciling with dead dreams, about carving out a place amid a commodified American existence and learning to call it home.