“All of the pressure or just sort of distractions come from living from past regret or fear of the future or being outcome driven,” Close said this week.

A close listen to the album seems to reveal a narrative about a guy taking chances, moving past regret into something new and exciting, and finding love in unexpected places.

Gena Rowlands plays a New Yorker who has reached that point in life when what is past hope is past regret, but not past consolation.

Gena Rowlands plays a New Yorker at the point in life when what's past hope is past regret, but not past consolation.

Past Regret, stern, unyielding, and austere, one goes silently, having given the password, and enters in.