“It was just time to step away for a while,” reflects Eagle-Eye Cherry thoughtfully from his home in Stockholm, Sweden. “I was coming off of a lot of touring and promotion in support of my third record, and I could feel myself starting to burn out.” Reemerging nearly seven years later from his self-imposed exile, Cherry found himself with a new perspective, surveying a deeply altered landscape. “The idea that time is relative makes more sense than ever to me now,” he explains. “It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, but when I sit down to figure it out, I’m amazed by just how much time has passed.