Claude says:Peter Silberman's concept album about a hospice worker falling for a terminal patient was self-released in March 2009, then picked up by Frenchkiss and remastered a few months later — the songs cycle through a slow deterioration that doubles as a metaphor for an abusive relationship, set against the backdrop of a New York City cancer center. You had a lone play back in 2013 that went nowhere, but it finally clicked in August 2026, seventeen years after release. "Kettering" and "Bear" lead your listens, but you've worked through most of the story — "Epilogue," "Prologue," "Sylvia," the whole arc.