We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, for the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year

It opens the album at 6:18 on Wikipedia's count and 6:19 on Erased Tapes's, written by O'Halloran and Wiltzie and recorded within the 2009 to 2011 sessions; the sources do not say which studio. One review noted it at first sounded pretty much like a Stars of the Lid song, and A Closer Listen later used it as a yardstick, writing that Atomos takes almost six minutes to produce anything as stark. We found no statement from either musician on its meaning, and no single, video, cover or sample. Setlist.fm shows it under two spellings, 11 plays and 3, and it opened a Lisbon show on May 29, 2026.