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The resilience and fortitude in the human soul is at times the most amazing and outstanding thing that anyone can ever be privileged to witness. It is an honour at times to see the spirit of the race carry on in the face of untold dangers and come through it, as individuals or as a collective, with courage and resilience so intact that the next thing they do is even more remarkable. To put down on paper, to record feelings that might never have been thought of if such hardship has not been faced is something very special and unique, the framing of the human condition in its most wonderful, so fragile and yet inspired; it is something that Rab Noakes has captured with great sincerity in The Treatment Tapes E.P.