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• Thrice is a Californian Rock band who was founded in 1998 by guitarist/vocalist Dustin Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi while they were in high school. Kensrue told Christianity Today the story behind this track from their seventh album, Major/Minor: "It's a dark song. Our drummer was showing us some slow shutter speed pictures he had taken. Everything's out of focus, and the images create this blurry light trail. He said that the pictures captured some of the feelings we'd had in the past year or so—a lot of loss in our band, specifically with cancer. Our guitar player's mom passed away about two years ago, and the bass player and drummer's dad passed away earlier this year. And my dad has brain cancer. It's just been kind of a crazy time. So we built that song, using those pictures as inspiration. It's dark all the way through.
  
  I used to try to fit too much into one song, to try to 'resolve' it by the end. But I started realizing that as long as I have a catalogue that's balanced, I can go into a dark spot and leave someone there in that zone, and not try to rescue them from the implications of what I'm getting at in the song. So 'Blur' is leading into a despairing place, but there's a lot of hope presented in other songs to balance that out."