I’ll never remember that crisp autumn day in 1995 when I first heard Sunny Day Real Estate. I was 10 years old, in Saudi Arabia, sitting on the beige shag carpet of a British boy (whose name I can’t remember) from school with long brown blonde hair, wearing a black, faded, Metallica shirt. He told me that he wanted to share something “new” with me. I didn’t think much of it and thought he was just a weird kid from school.

When The Rising Tide came out in 2000 and I heard this song, I felt like I was 10 years old again sitting in this kid’s bedroom. I realized at that moment, that he had been onto something 5 years prior.

Jeremy Enigk waits for no one.