Of Hope and Peace: An Excerpt of “A Story About Between Illness and Migration”
This picture, taken in Your Favorite Enemies’ first-ever storybook titled “A Story About Between Illness and Migration” has been chosen to represent the song “Yūnagi”.
Find out why (as well as many more details about the book itself), on this special website dedicated to the project “A Journey Beyond Ourselves”, of which the storybook is part.
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Discover our new “Tokyo Sessions” [Double LP Vinyl]
The “Tokyo Sessions” vinyl is the 3rd release of the collection “Spin It ’Til It Bleeds”. Entirely handmade in Your Favorite Enemies’ creative atelier by the band members themselves, the vinyl features hi-fi audiophile quality, and the utmost care has been given to every detail, from the gatefold jacket to its inner sleeves, all the way to the vinyl itself.
The vinyl is available in limited quantity, so hurry up before it’s too late!
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Win exclusive Polaroids from the band
Every week, lucky winners are chosen by a random draw to receive exclusive polaroids that have been taken during the last 5 years. All related to “Between Illness and Migration”, these polaroids have been taken in studio or on tour as the band was touring the album. The 2 winners for last week have just been announced, and 2 new polaroids have also been added!
In order to win, participants must have purchased the ultimate deluxe collector bookset or the deluxe collector boxset of the band’s latest project, “A Journey Beyond Ourselves”.
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More about “A Story About Between Illness and Migration”
Featuring 8 different sections, the book “A Story About Between Illness and Migration” is the first one by Your Favorite Enemies. Part of the new project “A Journey Beyond Ourselves”, the 200+ full color pages also feature reviews the band has received from magazines for their opus. Some of them are now featured on the special website dedicated to the project.
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I Just Want You to Know: Behind the scenes of the creation
“Don’t you wish for sounds to last to raise your voice to reach the sky”
The book “A Story About Between Illness and Migration” features all the lyrics of the album, as well as a song-by-song interview with Alex, Ben and Sef. It’ll bring you with them through the creation of every song, from their original version found on the Japanese edition all the way to “Tokyo Sessions”.
An excerpt of this interview can be found on a special website dedicated to “A Journey Beyond Ourselves”, which the book is a part of.
Read the interview
“A Story About Between Illness and Migration” is a 200+ pages book assembled from Alex H. Foster’s personal notes, poetry, journal entries, recording notes and other annotations. It features an exclusive song-by-song interview with Alex, Ben and Sef and includes new and never released before pictures from the studios, behind the scenes from the videoclip productions, it also includes the perspective on the journey of every band member, as well as a short essay by Jeff Beaulieu.
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Unboxing “A Journey Beyond Ourselves”
Lathe-cut vinyls, hand-printed silkscreen jackets and inner sleeves, a t-shirt, exclusive pins, exclusive hand-printed silkscreen canvas, slipmats, personal essays and notes from Alex, lyrics ideas and evolution throughout the journey, never seen before notes from studio sessions, song by song interviews with Alex, Ben & Sef, rare pictures from the band’s personal archives, and more…
This is what “A Journey Beyond Ourselves” has to offer!
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Special Website for “A Journey Beyond Ourselves”
“A Journey Beyond Ourselves” is the strong incarnation of who we’ve become in the last 5 years, through the laughter and the struggles, through the successes and the downfalls. It is the best of us. It is us, as we are.
And this is why we thought we needed a special website… This is why we wanted this little haven of ours where we could expose excerpts of the book before it reaches you. The special website also hosts a section for the polaroid contest held by Your Favorite Enemies.
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Excerpt from the book “A Story About Between Illness and Migration”
“Next time we go there it will be totally different because of who we are now…”
Taken from the book “A Story About Between Illness and Migration”, page 175.
There are cities, places and people who have impacted us throughout the journey of “Between Illness and Migration”. Australia was one such place for Alex. Discover why in the book “A Story About Between Illness and Migration”.
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