"After our first Darklife recording sessions I felt attached to this song (which became “Light Left The Garden”). Though later in the process, when the album starting ballooning with tracks, it started to feel too repetitive, and to inject some interest we decided to add a new bridge section, which can be heard here in full. I really like the progression - me and Tech worked on it together during our second in-person recording sessions - and during the day it felt like it was coming together. But after closing the project for the night I kept thinking that something was off. The song had a certain ambiguous bittersweet quality that felt important to maintain, and the “Diamond Dust” bridge section shifted the mood. I got up early the next morning and recorded an entirely new instrumental replacement section (which can be heard on this Anthology in “CD Warehouse”) but I was still unsure which version worked better. James made me more confident in the decision by saying something like “we should follow whatever instinct compelled you to get up early just work on it.” - Keith

"This is an earlier version of “Light Left The Garden.” A lot of it similar to the final version, but the middle section is *completely* different. Keith and I recorded the section together in person during the February 2022 sessions, but ultimately scrapped it the next day in favor of the vocal-driven part that is on the final version. We actually never even exported a mix that had this version, we just left the tracks in the file muted. When compiling this anthology, it was the first time we had heard this section in a year and a half and it is, in our opinion, the wildest thing on here." - Tech

"Still one of my favorite tracks from Darklife, I'm glad we spent so long considering and recording different parts for it. The opening samples sound effects from the Final Fantasy XIV Shiva fight - at one point we thought it might be cool to have two tracks named after FF summon attacks, hence 'Diamond Dust.' In the end I'm glad we didn't." - James