In the first ever episode of Outside the Lines, Ava Hofmann interviews Jade Decker (AKA Branches) about her April 2022 Line Rider track release, Mount Eerie. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUaKN41TePQ

Highlights:
- Why death, nature, and queerness are all intertwined
- How the idea for the iconic ending of Mount Eerie was stumbled on by accident
- How having your corpse eaten by vultures is gay
Read a transcription of this interview in article form: https://lineriderreview.substack.com/p/jade-mount-eerie (edited for concision and clarity)
Watch a fully-subtitled YouTube video of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9k9fk2BWw (with visuals that include photos of paper sketches Jade made while conceptualizing Mount Eerie)

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Ava Hofmann YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHourhand
Jade Decker/Branches YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_LhPtCyWXtrmhuS0WvCl4A

Theme music by Nouveau Life™: https://tigerbloodtapes.bandcamp.com/track/--105

Edited and produced by Bevibel Harvey AKA Rabid Squirrel. Interview conducted on April 24, 2022.