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You can never go home again, Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, but what if you could get just close enough to see it? On Gazebo, his second record as Ulna, Adam Schubert fixes his gaze northwest from Chicago to the suburb of Northbrook, where he grew up. This is not a nostalgic view. Schubert was, in his words, “a bad kid” who had to go to school off campus, was expelled, and spent most of his time hanging with other kids in similar situations. Now sober and a member of the thriving Chicago DIY scene—he plays guitar in Bnny alongside wife Alexa Viscius, with whom he duets on Gazebo’s “Prairie Fire”—he’s looking back on a conflicted suburban teenhood, one characterized and complicated by hard living and caring friendships. A sense of distance permeates these songs: the distance from the bright lights of Chicago, which a teenaged Adam saw on the horizon in Northbrook, and the distance of time from which he now looks back. ---Marty Sartini Garner

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