Claude says:Alex Brown Church ran Sea Wolf as a folk-leaning project from the start, separating his more intimate songwriting from his earlier band Irving, and landing on Dangerbird Records with a sound both literary and homespun. This 2014 set was a Kickstarter-funded detour after heavy touring behind Old World Romance — Church stripped things down, aiming for the feel of his earliest demos while trying new methods in the studio. You grabbed it the month it arrived and played it straight through that summer, then let it go.