Just this past Monday, Boston-based label EveryDejaVu (@EveryDejaVu) casually Shared a rather mysterious message on their Twitter page, "Hidden in the intro blurb is a pre-order for a new cassette. Today marks the 4-year anniversary of Open Your Optics to Optimism, the collaborative album between @HerFavColor & @fateproduction! To celebrate, we put together a limited deluxe cassette." EveryDejaVu were, in fact, referring to their latest Substack newsletter, EDV #3: seangran, a Curator for the People. Said "intro blurb" in question further explains: "On top of that, today is the 4-year anniversary of Open Your Optics to Optimism, the collaborative album by Blu & Fa†e. While the Blu fan-boy in me could go on for days about this album, Miles Lamensky best described it: "On Open Your Optics to Optimism, LA's Blu and producer Fa†e buckle into a DeLorean, cruising back to a time before time in order that they might gain the knowledge necessary to exude such a genuine optimism. Faced with the absurdity and bluntness of such numbers as "4.6 billion years," it's hard to imagine a human conjuring any optimism at all. But Blu's calm and creative delivery, as well as experimentally-rooted lyricism act as the perfect guide across Fa†e's rhythmically-cohesive and booming production...'"


So, to help celebrate this monumentous occasion, EveryDejaVu have decided to put together a Deluxe Cassette 4th Anniversary Edition of Blu & Fa†e's Open Your Optics to Optimism EP. It's limited to just 100 cassette tapes, which are now avilable for pre-order directly from Fa†e's Bandcamp page. In addition to the 8 tracks originally included within Open Your Optics to Optimism's 2016 release, this special 4th Anniversary Edition boasts two additional Bonus Tracks, "UFO II" [Feat. Choker & Khary] and "Alienterlude." The aforementioned inclusion, "UFO II," is now available on most streaming services. Each cassette includes a multi-panel J-card with alternate versions of the EP's cover art created by McKay Felt and more. Blu & Fa†e's Open Your Optics to Optimism, Deluxe Cassette: 4th Anniversary Edition is now available for pre-order. EveryDejaVu's Substack Newsletter page says, "orders should be going at towards the end of October."