First heard: 7 April 2025
In a world riven with psychic rupture and physical dislocation, Griffith James has distilled the chaos. Raised everywhere between Dallas and Seoul, he moved 17 times in his first 18 years under the direction of a sectarian Christian cult that informed every aspect of his family’s life. During his senior year of high school, a rift between the church and his family led him to become a disillusioned teenage runaway on the streets of San Francisco, sleeping in parks until a Buddhist monk offered compassion and shelter. Read more on Last.fm