This album is both powerful and intimate， and perfect for fans of bands like The National， Elbow， and Thindersticks. An especially strong début by a late-bloomer…. Steven Borgerhoff (b. 1975)， one half of the Borgerhoff & Lamberigts publishing duo， waited until he was 43 to release his first music album – so it took him quite a while to gain his momentum; thus the title of the album. Despite the wait， it was never a matter of if for Borgerhoff， but always when. The album and his music were always there in the shadows， waiting to be brought out into the light. There was a little bit of a push needed to create it， which came from Shameboy’s Luuk Cox (Stromae， Tim Vanhamel， Girls in Hawaii)， who had run into Borgerhoff on previous occasions. Cox selected 9 songs from the hundreds of demos that had just been gathering dust over the years and produced the album. And voilà! The Long Now was born， the first album by SJ Hoffman， an anagram of Steven Borgerhoff’s first and last names. The music is all SJ Hoffman himself， although he wrote the lyrics together with Joe Hamill， frontman of the British band Cattle & Cane. SJ Hoffman’s goal is as clear as it is ambitious: to move others with his music just as he has been moved a thousand times and more by other people’s music.

1. Again (Spirit of Eden)
2. Falling
3. Darkness
4. Hold Your Heart
5. Blow Away
6. The Night Will Break Your Heart
7. No Excuse
8. Shine A Light
9. Gold