Five years after “[laughs]”, Kali Masi want to clear something up: they didn’t disappear. The Chicago four-piece have been on the road this whole time. Last fall they ran Europe on the Common Thread tour alongside Joyce Manor, The Hotelier, Hot Water Music, Strike Anywhere and Tigers Jaw, with a separate stretch sharing bills with Spanish Love Songs, The Dirty Nil and Deanna from Sincere Engineer. The gap was a recording gap, not a hiatus.