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Only Forever (Alive Like Me album)

album by Alive Like Me

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ23023421 ↗
Source-derived summary

Only Forever is the debut and only studio album by American rock band Alive Like Me. It was released in October 2014.

Based in the college town of Eugene, Oregon, singer Jairus Kersey, guitarists Brandon Banton and Dakota Dufloth, bassist David Knox, and drummer Joel Riley quickly built momentum releasing their first single "Start Again". As their reputation grew, they came to the attention of prominent Oregon indie Rise Records, who signed the band in early 2014. After joining the Vans Warped Tour for several dates that summer, they released their debut album, Only Forever, in October 2014.

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Credits for Only Forever adapted from AllMusic.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Only Forever (Alive Like Me album)” is album by Alive Like Me. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Only, Forever and Alive, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2014. For this dossier, Only, Forever and Alive is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23023421. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Only Forever (Alive Like Me album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.