Claude says:Mae built this album as an illustrated storybook with narration by Charlotte Martin — a proper concept record that Tooth & Nail later reissued with hand-drawn artwork recreated using actors on sets. You bounced off a handful of plays in 2006, but it clicked in March 2007 and stayed through that summer, with "Painless" and "Someone Else's Arms" anchoring the return trips you've made every few years since.