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#TBT 10/22/15

     Yep! It's been one year since this incredible album was released!! I can honestly say that I've been waiting to celebrate this day for quite a long time. Just a few days before Endeavour dropped, I wrote "Look beyond the limits and Endeavour!" on my wrist to give me courage for my 1st degree brown belt test (the one before black belt; I passed it btw). I still remember how I found out about 019's reveal. I'd gotten to know about the current releases, and that 018 - Frontier was the last album, but at that point, I still wasn't following Monstercat's social media. It was pretty coincidental. I was following a comment chain of Pegboard Nerds song titles somewhere on the subreddit, and I'd taken some screenshots. For some reason, I was so focused on the comment chain that it took me until I was looking at the screenshots in my Camera Roll a few minutes later for me to finally notice what was on the side of the webpage: the very bottom of the Endeavour cover, showing just the title. This was the first time I'd seen the cover, ever. I hurried back to Safari to see the full thing, and sure enough, there it was. This was a huge moment of hype for me. I traced it back to Monstercat's Facebook page, where, sure enough, they'd announced the album only hours before. I kept their page open, and that's how I became involved in the events during Endeavour Week. I still remember the feeling of becoming mindblown again and again during the week that a label could care about its fans this much. And I was so hooked. Flash forward to Monstercat's Bandcamp sale, when I finally got to buy 019 - Endeavour for only $2.00 (Black Friday, m8s). Yeah, that was amazing. I remember listening to previews before that, listening to it for the first time, and enjoying Anna's voice on Against the Sun. Flash forward again to this morning, one year after 019's release, when I found out about 024 - Vanguard's reveal. 024 will be the fifth compilation album release for which I'm involved with the family. Everything seems to always work out perfectly this way, and it feels absolutely insane. 365 days of being with the family and I don't regret a single second. Happy Birthday, Endeavour!