Welcome to the heart.

I'm Caitlin Prest.

Hi, friends.

It's been almost a year since we made something new on the heart.

And the reason why we've been away from you for so long is because me and Phoebe and Sharon and Johnny Aviram have been working on something new.

I know we've been teasing you this whole time being like, oh my god, it's a secret. It's a secret. It's a secret because for half the time that we were making it, we didn't even know what it was going to be.

And now that new project that has been a secret for so long is out in the world.

And I am here to give you a small taste of what that project sounds like.

If you're enough of a heart fan that you still haven't deleted it from your phone, even now almost a year later, and you're listening to this because you just like seeing the logo in your podcast app.

I'm telling you that you'll probably really like the shadows.

My hope is that after you listen to this, you'll be like, oh my god, I love this and I'm going to subscribe immediately.

Anyway, without further ado, I'm going to play the first 15 minutes of episode one of the shadows.

Sometimes there's a version of yourself that you don't want to admit exists. Sometimes we have a story about the great ideals of danceplars, the story that I read.

This is the shadows.

Episode one.

What is it? The Destins of Love to Die?

I guess I always felt like you were uncertain and that it was my job to convince us both that this was a good idea.

Is it destiny or do we have a choice?

You know, like there's always going to be problems. There's always going to be friction. There's always going to be fucked up shit.

Where did this love story begin? Did it begin when I was born?

The FIRE!

Where I grew up, there were two choices for entertainment as a young person. Hockey or heavy metal. I preferred heavy metal.

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