My Jerusalem - A Little Death

Near the icy waters and snow-covered shores of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York, Jeff Klein locked himself in a rental house and did nothing but write for a month. A few blocks away, in the Midwood area, sits the home in which his mother grew up. A prolonged illness had claimed her life a few years earlier. �That was me coming to terms with the whole situation,� the My Jerusalem frontman explains of his attempt to embed himself within his family history after many years of being on the road, touring. �I kept walking by this house my grandparents used to live in on Avenue H. I�ve never been very connected to family. I�ve romanticized the idea of family, but I think I was just trying to connect with something.� Klein, who normally resides in Austin, felt an immediate inspiration there and was prolific during these winter weeks near his mother�s childhood neighborhood, producing 14 songs, 12 of which would come to be the band�s forthcoming album, A Little Death. �The little death,� or �la petite mort� in French, refers to, well, an orgasm, and somewhere between the literal definition and the slang is where Klein situated the album. �Like any kid, I was obsessed with death and obsessed with sex. Some people grow out of it and start families and become normal people and some of us just stay the same,� he laughs. �I�m still obsessing about the psychology behind death and sex.�