Typical Forever - Olivia Rafferty

There are secret processes happening all of the time on this planet. Tectonic plates are being broken down and built as we speak. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge grows by 2 centimeters each year. And you can’t undermine that, because, once upon a time, that painstaking process created an entire ocean.

Did you know India was once neighbours with Australia and the Antarctic? Did you know its journey up into the Eurasian plate created the Himalayas? Did you know that, in the grand scheme of things, the Himalayas are relatively new?

Did you know that there is a period of time that geologists refer to as ‘The Boring Billion’, where it seemed like nothing was going on??? Nothing more exciting than a primordial soup marinating for millions of years?

What ‘Typical Forever’ says is this: it’s okay to take your time. It’s okay to look back on the life you’ve had fondly and understand that, in a weird and winding way, nothing good you have today would exist if it weren’t for every experience you had before it. Who you are is made up of a bedrock of layers and layers of all the people you once were.

We can count on ourselves to change, and we can also count on ourselves to stay the same.

Everything is typical forever.

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Recorded at Laurel Sound Studios in Hertfordshire and at Olivia's home in London.
Executive produced by Olivia Rafferty
Engineered by James Li, Ollie Taylor and Ed Taylor
Mixed by Ian Flynn
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluidmastering

Acoustic guitar, piano, vocals, backing vocals, cowbell, Casio keyboard & MIDI instruments: Olivia Rafferty
Drums & percussion: Jack Painting
Bass & electric guitar: Ollie Taylor
Additional electric guitar on Coulee City Rodeo Queen and piano on Green Skies: James Li
Toms on Juan de Fuca: Ed Taylor

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