Claude says:The Mesa four-piece broke through with Bleed American and "The Middle," but Clarity from 1999 was the emo landmark where they first stretched past punk into something slower and more ambitious. These are 2021 session reworkings of that whole album — leaner, rawer takes on songs you already knew by heart. You grabbed it the month it dropped and spent November with the new versions of "Lucky Denver Mint" and "For Me This Is Heaven," measuring them against the originals before moving on.