Alex Kent didn't get his sound back. He built it back, one frequency at a time.

Certain towns never allow people to forget their origins; for instance, North Long Beach does this to some people. Alex Kent knows it as something that you know well, like a scar; although it does not hurt much, it tells you where it comes from whenever you see it.

The year of 2019 was the year that Alex lost his voice, and not in a metaphorical sense at all. Instead, it was due to a physical fight and a blow to his throat that caused his vocal cords to stop working altogether. If you have ever lost your means of speaking, you understand the feeling of silent frustration that it brings, which is not calming but makes everything else seem extremely noisier.

Nowadays, Alex lives in the Midwest, far away from the streets of California that made him who he is, and he thought that it was the end of his career as a musician.

Technology has adapted to the situation. Vocal modelling relies on how a person used to sound at the time, even long before his tongue suffered the damage of long years of not being able to sing. It is an interesting kind of resurrection - one hears one’s own voice, produced by means of technology.

"Hollow Point", on the contrary, is not a story of overcoming circumstances. It's something more complex. It is what happens when one gets back one's instrument in an innovative way that one would never think was possible ten years back, and what one does first is to use it to speak.