The road to Forever Just Beyond, Eef Barzelays stunning new album under the Clem Snide moniker, was an unlikely one, to say the least. About ten years ago, everything just seemed to fall apart, he explains. The band bottomed out, my marriage was crumbling, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. That started this process of ego death for me, where I realized the only way to survive would be to transcend myself and to try to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life and with being. Once I committed myself to that, miraculous things started to happen.