Samuel Holden Jaffe, more likely known by the name of his indie-alternative solo project Del Water Gap, has spent the last few years in a state of uncertainty, searching rather unsuccessfully for answers. At times, pursuing a relationship that, upon its conclusion, not even he seems to have understood, or wondering about his place in the world, it seems Jaffe ultimately concluded that it all feels like pursuing an amorphous being. Or in a more allegorical sense, like chasing a chimera. The chimera is a creature from Greek mythology that’s part-lion and part-goat, its tail ending with the head of a snake. More simply, it’s a confounding and otherworldly creature made up of incongruous parts, not too dissimilar to the feelings Jaffe has toward life. This concept he’s…

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