At the insincere suggestion of many, a true believer in eternal safety makes their first way towards the "Outside". The "Outside", too, is making its way towards a suggested destination, entirely at the discretion of "His", "His", and "His". Do you accept this? Do you accept this? You were built to accept this. It's simpler that way. "He" never happened. The root is in your hands. The root is in your hands. The root is in your hands.

No, no, not in that way. Don't misunderstand. Your better collective is out there waiting.

• Eco's description was initially much shorter, and went as follows:

"Going Outside at Your Suggestion
While Outside’s Going at Their Discretion

Then I Wept
I Cherish"

• In the original photo used for Eco's cover art, I am completely naked. This was much more apparent in the earlier iterations of its design, but much like what happened with Fuck the son., I simply feared that The Audience was not yet ready for such a thing, and censored it accordingly despite being so incredibly tame. Not anymore, though. Nothing is holding me back from sharing those early iterations with you now. And just this once, I'll even be 'tactful' about it, by listing them in order of Most to Least Obscured, so you get to decide how much of this imagery you're willing to see, only scrolling as far as you wish. Aren't I so kind?

• On the subject of this album's cover art, there was also a time where I was considering expanding it with DALL-E 2's "outpainting" feature for an even more surreal effect, but I eventually decided against that and just stuck with what I already made. Here's what those versions could've looked like:

• There's a passage of unused Eco lyrics dating all the way back to 2021:

— 07/18/2021 8:31 PM
"this book cured my eco-anxiety
ha no it fucking didnt i thought it would too
list a best case scenario with no real path towards it
i log onto picrew and make a new selfie
distract and retract, how will these futures affect all tunes
bleakest-ass novel found in thread, deemed not even pessimistic
24/7 awaits next jerkoff it's all i can do
rarely seeking new in visual medium, i'll watch them all later
back down right now into this good memory lane
hey here we go now a raindrop's on fire, and toes froze off
sorry friends accidentally rose a water
like movie apocalypse, disturbing tsunami
fuck a 2045 for all you've done
witness my own footprint, like that would ever help
dropping cum buckets as equal to worth
the big mans dont wanna count for it and never will right?
laughable observation by now okay we just gotta know
growth, growth, size me up, chuck it up, chop me up, unbuilding resources"

• Before reading out the lyrics OMS contributed, there were multiple words I had to look up the pronunciation of. Their seemingly infinite vocabulary confounds me.

• TRACK 1's title quotes from a machine translation of some random Cute Animal content farm's Twitter bio.

The track itself begins by sampling a lap steel guitar cover of "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin, and later samples "Tal 90" by GAS, one of his few tracks to contain no percussion, so in a way it's like I 'finished' that track for him by adding a kick pulse, which I thought was kinda funny.

• The "Newage" part of TRACK 2's title is meant to be a portmanteau of "New" and "Sewage", not just "New Age" with no space.

In the track itself, the headlines read out by text-to-speech come from actual Apple News notifications I got on my phone, which I've only left enabled because so often they're hilariously incomprehensible. So many brand new sequences of words. I still can't get over "the culture war over sleepovers". What the actual fuck are you talking about. Don't answer that, I don't wanna know.

• The second segment of TRACK 3 marks the first time in mainline Roxy history that I didn't have Soundgoodizer enabled on the master. Dynamic range can be useful to me sometimes. Rarely, but it can.

• The sticker-covered sign seen in TRACK 4's cover comes from a real photo taken by a close friend of mine.

• TRACK 5's instrumental was partly built from a MIDI of "Helena" by My Chemical Romance, and samples some vocals from the original song.

• TRACK 6 simultaneously samples a GoAnimate Caillou Grounded video and "It's Everyday Bro" by Jake Paul. Later on, there's also a sample of "Extinctus Amabitur Idem" by Bull of Heaven.