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Editor’s Picks 123: Armlock, S.G. Goodman, Nii, Night time Tapes, Home of Hurt, & snuggle!


Atwood Journal is happy to share our Editor’s Picks column, written and curated by Editor-in-Chief Mitch Mosk. Each week, Mitch will share a set of songs, albums, and artists who’ve caught his ears, eyes, and coronary heart. There’s a lot unbelievable music on the market simply ready to be heard, and all it takes from us is an open thoughts and a willingness to hear. By way of our Editor’s Picks, we hope to shine a light-weight on our personal music discoveries and showcase a various array of recent and up to date releases.
This week’s Editor’s Picks options Armlock, S.G. Goodman, Nii, Night time Tapes, Home of Hurt, and snuggle!

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I take an enormous sip, pull my shoulders again, commerce the blue chip, we made a blood pact as a type of love…” There’s a quiet magic pulsing by means of Armlock’s “Strobe” – a form of understated depth that slowly envelops the senses, drawing you deep into the track’s tender, glistening glow. Hypnotic and hushed, uncooked and radiant, “Strobe” looks like a reminiscence – fleeting and but everlasting, flickering out and in of view like headlights on a late-night drive… or the hazy heat of somebody you’re keen on laughing on the opposite finish of the telephone. Dozens (upon dozens) of listens in, this monitor continues to maneuver and mystify me. It’s unvarnished, it’s aching, it’s immersive in probably the most light and real approach. In its softness lies one thing actually stunning… one thing that stirs the ears, the center, and the soul.

I take an enormous sip
Pull my shoulders again
Commerce the blue chip
We made a blood pact
As a type of love…
It’s been a leashed yr
Stored it on the rails I really feel it shift gear
Breathe in and exhale
Isn’t it great…
As a result of
Strobe - Armlock
Strobe – Armlock

Launched on Could 1st through Run for Cowl Information, “Strobe” is the Melbourne, Australia-based indie rock duo’s first single since releasing their sophomore album Seashell Angel Fortunate Appeal in 2024, and it looks like each a continuation and a reintroduction – a small evolution, refined however intentional. Written whereas touring throughout Europe and the US, the track turned a live-testing floor for brand spanking new concepts: An opportunity for Armlock – comprised of Simon Lam and Hamish Mitchell – to refine what they do greatest whereas pushing into new sonic territory. “We really feel it’s refining what we already do but additionally pushing it into barely totally different territory,” Armlock inform Atwood Journal. “We’re always making an attempt to give you a brand new feeling inside our songs, however making an attempt to current it in its most pure and easiest kind.”

“The guitar half was truly impressed by some 2000s progressive home tracks. They approach they construction chord progressions is basically totally different to the best way you’d often construction chords in a guitar band, so we wished to play off that concept. We take heed to quite a lot of rap, and that influenced the vocal melody for certain – simply utilizing the identical few notes and letting the chords create the color. We truly tried so many alternative layers within the manufacturing, however we discovered more often than not it might make the track much less instant or would distract from the lyrics. If we’re on the fence a couple of sound we simply eliminate it, and we’re actually choosy, so it finally ends up so minimal.”

That minimalism provides “Strobe” its emotional energy. The track’s climax – “That’s my buddy on the telephone / We’ve been laughing all day / That’s my dad out the entrance / Assume we kinda look the identical…” – is disarmingly private and deeply transferring, provided like a Polaroid from somebody’s life. “I suppose it’s like taking somebody on a mini tour of my life,” Lam says. “Like driving round and pointing and saying ‘that is the shit that issues most to me.’ And none of it’s actually grand or something, however it’s all superior.”

That’s my buddy on the telephone
We’ve been laughing all day
That’s my dad out the entrance
Assume we kinda look the identical
She’s the one, primary
By no means wished me to vary
Take a lap, lower the chicane
And we do all of it once more

Even the track’s title hints at that stress between outward shine and inward calm. “It was simply taken from one of many lyrics,” they notice. “We like the way it virtually doesn’t swimsuit the track, however alludes to among the underlying depth.”

Lam sees that line, “I’m a strobe, blinding eyes with the glow,” as a form of metaphor for all times on the street: “The lyrics form of contact on the sensation of being off then on, shining however intermittently. Taking part in exhibits on a tour form of looks like that – you give the perfect model of your self for the set, then you definitely swap off once more till the following one.”

I play it face down
It’s bought two and two
I skip the headcheck
Do what I gotta do
Simply depart it on the ground…
Infinite, it’s all using on this
No scoping, warmth looking for, we will’t miss
I’m a strobe, blinding eyes with the glow
As a result of

That off-and-on rhythm echoes all through the track – in its softly flickering guitars, its near-whispered vocals, and its meditative chorus. It’s a track rooted in the true: In associates and fathers, in telephone calls and porch steps, within the individuals who floor us when the remainder of the world gained’t cease spinning.

“We simply hope folks prefer it, makes them really feel good,” Armlock say. “Possibly it reminds somebody of their very own family and friends. It’s a weirdly constructive track for us, however we expect we’re down for doing extra like this.”

Possibly that’s what retains me coming again to “Strobe” – why I’ve listened to it so many occasions, and nonetheless can’t fairly put my finger on what makes it hit so arduous. It’s not simply the heat or the softness, the ache or the glow; it’s the truth that this track feels lived-in. It looks like a well-recognized smile; it looks like a hug. It feels actual. It feels prefer it means the whole lot to Armlock – and in that vulnerability, in that light depth, it finally ends up which means the whole lot to me, too. It’s the whole lot abruptly.

That’s my buddy on the telephone
We’ve been laughing all day
That’s my dad out the entrance
Assume we kinda look the identical
She’s the one, primary
So watch out what you say
Take a lap, lower the chicane
And we do all of it once more

“Satellite tv for pc”

by S.G. Goodman

Look what it’s executed to you.” S.G. Goodman’s “Satellite tv for pc” is a smoldering fever dream – a tender hypnosis that aches in all it says, and in all it leaves unsaid. Hauntingly stunning and breathtaking in its restraint, the monitor opens her upcoming album Planting by the Indicators with a slow-burning eruption. From the primary line – “Say it’s good, say it’s proper, hoping on a satellite tv for pc” – we’re locked in orbit, circling the anxieties of disconnection, distortion, and religion in false indicators.

Constructed on sparse guitars, a gentle, insistent drumbeat, and Goodman’s singular, trembling voice, “Satellite tv for pc” simmers with stress, grit, and tenderness abruptly. The refrain, “Ooh ooh, look what it’s executed to you,” hits like a whisper and a wound – equal elements reflection, reverie, and emotional reckoning. Her voice might sound light, however it carries a crushing weight; a lament dressed as a lullaby.

Planting by the Signs - S.G. Goodman
Planting by the Indicators – S.G. Goodman
Say it’s good, say it’s proper,
hoping on a satellite tv for pc

Kingdom come, kingdom come
It’s the identical for everybody,
it’s the identical for everybody
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you
Look what it’s executed to you

For Goodman, this track and its guardian album communicate to a deeper want – not simply to specific, however to protect. “Satellite tv for pc” isn’t merely the opener; it’s the doorway into a bigger dialog about reminiscence, which means, and the methods we chart our lives by forces better than ourselves. It units the tone for Planting by the Indicators as each a private and collective confrontation – a physique of labor rooted in outdated knowledge and made pressing by the disorientation of the current day.

“The entire premise behind the apply of Planting by the Indicators is that we will look to nature to grasp when could be the perfect time to do one thing to get the perfect outcomes,” the Kentucky-born and raised singer/songwriter shares. “I’m excited about how man is obstructing nature and its historical information, whereas the human situation stays the identical: that to outlive we should be in concord with nature and one another.”

Within the jaw, within the jaw
That’s the place you may catch all of it
Say it’s true, say it’s proper
Hoping on a satellite tv for pc, hoping on a satellite tv for pc
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you
Look what it’s executed to you

That battle – between humanness and modernity, nature and expertise – pulses on the core of “Satellite tv for pc.” It’s a warning and a surprise, a meditation on what we’ve misplaced and what may nonetheless be salvageable.

“Generally you need to preserve an outdated story going in order that others can see their place in it subsequent to yours,” Goodman explains. “When writing songs for this album, particulars and imagery from Planting by the Indicators would emerge in songs that I really feel painting common experiences by means of my specific view. I do consider that from our earliest existence, people have been looking for methods to reside life in the proper approach, and we proceed to struggle about it to at the present time. I’m excited about how as a human race we’ll reconcile increasing technological development, knowledge pushed metrics, and the way we obtain data.”

She continues, “What occurs when as a society we glance to screens for steerage and never the pure world? I consider it’s main us additional away from our capability to acknowledge each what we might acquire and lose by ignoring nature’s messages. I begin my album with ‘Satellite tv for pc,’ the place I’m in dialog about these considerations.”

Moon is full, moon is true
Pulling in your shadowside
Born once more, pulled the tooth
Minimize the pores and skin down on the root
Minimize the pores and skin down on the root
Kingdom come, kingdom come
It’s the identical for everybody
Kingdom come, kingdom come
Speaking shit and having enjoyable
Kingdom come, kingdom come
It’s the identical for everybody
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you
Ooh, look what it’s executed to you

That stress – between progress and preservation, digital noise and pure readability – isn’t simply written into this track’s lyrics; it lives within the sound. “Satellite tv for pc” looks like a transmission from the in-between: It’s Goodman reckoning, in actual time, with the widening hole between humanity and the earth that raised us. Her aching voice is looking, virtually pleading, as she confronts a world that’s forgotten the way to take heed to something however its personal reflection. The end result isn’t just a haunting meditation on trendy disconnection, however a name to reattune – to ourselves, to at least one one other, and to the messages nonetheless echoing within the dust and the celebrities.

Dramatic and disquieting, “Satellite tv for pc” is the sound of making an attempt to remain grounded in an untethered world. Of reaching for one thing actual whereas indicators distort above our heads. It’s intimate, intense, and deeply private – and possibly that’s why it lingers lengthy after the ultimate line. “Hoping on a satellite tv for pc,” S.G. Goodman repeats within the outro, her voice fading into static – into an uncomfortable catharsis.

Look what it’s executed to you. Look what it’s executed to all of us.

Planting by the Indicators is out June 20 through Goodman’s very personal Slough Water Information / Thirty Tigers.

Say it’s good, say it’s proper,
hoping on a satellite tv for pc

Say it’s good, say it’s proper,
hoping on a satellite tv for pc

Hoping on a satellite tv for pc
Hoping on a satellite tv for pc
Hoping on a satellite tv for pc

“Individuals Speak to Individuals”

by Nii

Stuck round similar to a stain… has my welcome been overstayed?” Nii opens “Individuals Speak to Individuals” with a intestine punch, and from there, he doesn’t maintain again. A standout off the British singer/songwriter and guitarist’s sophomore EP Whiplash, the track is upbeat, intimate, achingly emotional and relentlessly intense – a cathartic burst of social anxiousness and self-awareness wrapped in driving guitars and dynamic rhythms. It’s propulsive and provocative, dancing between overthinking and oversharing, inner reckoning and uncooked launch.

Caught round similar to a stain
Has my welcome been overstayed
The temper falls like September rain
No I don′t wanna be lifeless to you
Oh don’t be so arduous on your self boy
You′re making this awkward
For everybody else
Bleeding all around the carpet
It seeps by means of the floorboards
I’ll assist you to in your approach out of right here
Whiplash EP - Nii
Whiplash EP – Nii

“Funnily sufficient, the title got here earlier than the rest,” Nii tells Atwood Journal. “I had just a few traces about social anxiousness, and we began slightly groove in [producer] Jack Segal’s house studio. Once I introduced the idea to him, we sat down on his balcony with two guitars and wrote the chord and lyrics collectively earlier than going again in to report the monitor.” The result’s a whirlwind of emotion: From its anxious heartbeat to its disarming pre-chorus – “Oh, don’t be so arduous on your self, boy / You’re making this awkward for everybody else” – “Individuals Speak to Individuals” captures the chaos of making an attempt to attach whereas always second-guessing your self.

Inform me how I’m alleged to really feel
I misplaced my phrases so I′m blind
behind the steering wheel
Nicely final evening you had us laughing
Undecided if it was actual
Nicely these medication are like communion
The place nobody ever heals

“It’s about social anxiousness and the way way more alienating it turns into as I become old,” Nii explains. “Realising that this mountain that I believed I had climbed in my youthful years has sprouted its ugly head once more. And it’s not so cute or endearing now as a ‘grown grownup’… I wished to specific how a lot it looks like a casualty for me, but when I disguise it nicely sufficient after a drink or two, associates can persuade me that I’ve no downside in any respect. That’s if I don’t find yourself oversharing as a wild overcorrection.”

Don′t be so arduous on your self boy
You’re making this awkward
For everybody else
Looks like nobody even observed
You had hassle speaking
Received′t you retain all of it to your self subsequent time
Individuals speak to folks
Recently I’ve been see-through
Hiding however I don′t meant to
No I don’t wanna be lifeless to you

This track doesn’t disguise something. It twists his coronary heart and soul inside out: “No, I don’t wish to be lifeless to you,” he confesses in a single breath, earlier than dropping himself in spirals of self-doubt the following. And but, beneath the jagged edges, there’s a hopeful present – the form of honesty that opens doorways, if not for others, then a minimum of for oneself.

For Nii, this monitor captures a lot of the soul of his new EP. “Whiplash represents a wrestle between who I’m and who I wish to be,” he shares. “All through the EP it looks like I’m unwillingly pressured to face who I truly am, regardless of reaching for an individual or a substance that I feel will change me. That features these moments the place I’m reminded of how I felt rising up, being within the exterior wanting in and wishing I had the phrases to specific it. I discovered these phrases with ‘Individuals Speak to Individuals.’”

It’s a robust reminder to fulfill your self the place you might be – and possibly supply slightly grace whilst you’re there. “I hope listeners that relate to it realise they’re not alone in how they really feel,” Nii says. “I feel most of us in some unspecified time in the future can relate to feeling out of step together with your social life, relationships and the way you specific your true self. And it’s higher to just accept the place you’re at and alter it moderately than masks it.”

“It’s not a topic I’ve efficiently grasped in my writing till now, so I’ve discovered it actually cathartic to jot down. It looks like years of observations culminating into one track and youthful me wanted to listen to it. So I’m fulfilled with the work itself however much more so figuring out there’s possibly a model of youthful me on the market listening that may join.”

Needs to be straightforward now we’re older
So inform me little lies
Like the whole lot modifications
while you least count on and

It’s all in your thoughts
I′ll chew on it whereas I′m sober
And spit it out at evening
Yeah folks speak to folks
However I mentioned an excessive amount of this time

Hailing from Leeds and now primarily based in London, Nii launched his debut single in simply April of final yr, intently adopted by his debut EP Nothing Ready, an intimate introduction to his susceptible artwork and seductive artistry.

“I would like folks to know my intention is at all times to be sincere, generally painfully so,” he says of these simply discovering him in the present day. “Exhibiting flaws so I can join with others and we will sit within the messiness collectively. My music’s for the over-thinkers, and when you’ve ever felt an excessive amount of and mentioned too little, you may discover a house in these songs.”

A radiant reckoning 5 occasions over, Whiplash is actually the proper embodiment of these sentiments. “For me, this EP can be a whirlwind by means of self-discovery,” he confides. “It’s a bunch of falling down moments after getting forward of myself, maybe making an attempt to pursue anyone else’s life. Within the wake of my final EP, there was the whole lot to achieve, so there are extra forthcoming themes and sounds in Whiplash. And with the emergency cease of ‘Dying Music,’ I search to be extra candid concerning the issues I can’t change in myself, different folks, and no matter is inevitable.”

Begin with “Individuals Speak to Individuals,” however don’t cease there. Whiplash is a experience value taking.

“tv”

by Night time Tapes

Night Tapes’ “Tv” is pure intoxication – a gradual, simmering spell that slips below the pores and skin and lingers within the bloodstream lengthy after the ultimate notice fades. It’s brooding and melancholy, moody and transferring – dancey and haunting abruptly. Launched on Valentine’s Day because the second single off the London trio’s upcoming debut album portals//polarities (out September 26th through Nettwerk Music Group), the monitor pulses like a lucid dream: Lush and cinematic, full of soppy shadows and fleeting gentle. Iiris Vesik’s vocals glide excessive and weightless above a mattress of swirling synths and nocturnal percussion, their texture as emotionally charged because the lyrics themselves.

I don’t wish to develop into only a individual
on my telephone in ambiance
wanna be the place the enjoyable is
you refine till you crystallise
all people’s tv
something could be a imaginative and prescient
all people’s intermission
something may very well be a component
today, yeah
Television - Night Tapes
tv – Night time Tapes

I’ve had Night time Tapes’ 2024 EP assisted reminiscences on regular rotation for months, and “Tv” in some way looks like each a continuation and an ascension – a deepening of the band’s already immersive sound. There’s a refined ache baked into each second right here: That quiet feeling of being surrounded, however in some way nonetheless alone. Of looking for connection by means of infinite digital home windows, and solely catching glimpses of reflection.

As Vesek shares, the track was born of a type of on a regular basis moments that slowly turns profound. “I used to be sitting within the park, wanting right into a portal in my arms and worrying concerning the world,” she tells Atwood Journal. “Once I seemed up, I might see that there have been a number of folks within the park who, like me, had come to benefit from the park. In every single place I seemed – they had been within the portals of their arms. Some had been diving headfirst, some stored good posture, and I believed to myself that a minimum of singing with good approach requires good posture, so hopefully once I’m 80, my physique would nonetheless be considerably straight up once I’m going someplace.”

“I additionally thought that this isn’t how parks are supposed to work. So I wrote down the primary sentence of this track into the helpful portal in my arms to make use of it later.”

I simply wanna be the place the enjoyable is
you may’t return
you realize an excessive amount of now
you may’t return
ahead, ahead
go on
you may’t return
you realize an excessive amount of now
you may’t return
ahead, ahead
go on

It’s that collision of interior and outer worlds – the seen and invisible, the tangible and the transcendent – that offers “Tv” its weight. Night time Tapes, which started as housemates Max Doohan, Sam Richards, and Iiris Vesik jamming collectively in London, craft music that lives within the liminal areas. Their sound blends tactile textures with metaphysical themes, creating one thing that feels emotionally instant and cosmically distant abruptly.

been refracting gentle by means of a prism
each single lie has been a jail
life lived on the sting
life lived on the border
treading waters finish
I don’t miss it
I don’t miss it
I don’t miss it
hanging by a thread

That rings very true on “Tv,” because the trio confront questions of notion and actuality. “Herman Hesse has mentioned, ‘There isn’t a actuality besides the one contained inside us. That’s the reason so many individuals reside such an unreal life. They take the pictures exterior of them for actuality and by no means enable the world inside to claim itself,’” Vesek provides. “So I adopted his recommendation, closed my eyes, and fashioned a special portal that took me to my physique with a purpose to get into my interior world…”

“Tv” pulses in that sacred area between actuality and reflection. It’s a portal of its personal – one which doesn’t disconnect you from the current, however as a substitute pulls you deeper into it. One which reminds you the way to really feel, the way to breathe, the way to be.

Plug in. Drop out. Drift off. Let it take you someplace quieter.

portals//polarities arrives this fall.

you may’t return
you realize an excessive amount of now
you may’t return
ahead, ahead
go on
you may’t return
you realize an excessive amount of now
you may’t return
ahead, ahead
go on

“Cannot Battle the Feeling”

by Home of Hurt

Can’t Battle the Feeling” is pure, unadulterated post-punk exhilaration – a searing, shadowy rush of sound and emotionally charged sensation that aches as a lot because it intoxicates. It’s darkish and dramatic in all the perfect methods: Brooding and propulsive, haunting and hedonistic. From the Boston-based trio Home of Hurt – Michael Rocheford, Cooper Leardi, and Tyler Kershaw – this track is the primary launch since their acclaimed 2023 album Playground, and it arrives like a shot to the system.

Transferring on to what?
It’s arduous to wish to
Earlier than might cease
It’s all I gained’t do
Asleep in the identical room
Simply to cover the lies that I’m dreaming
The mirrors turned you
Reflecting the sounds, so deceptive
Can’t struggle the sensation
You don’t get me anymore
With every evening revealing
That we’ve closed one other door
Can't Fight the Feeling - House of Harm
Can’t Battle the Feeling – Home of Hurt

This monitor appears like recent air at 10:30pm – that electrical pause earlier than the evening begins. It’s anticipation and ache wrapped into one; that good, fleeting second when something feels doable, at the same time as one thing necessary slips by means of your fingers. The lyrics lower deep – “Can’t struggle the sensation / You don’t get me anymore / With every evening revealing / That we’ve closed one other door” – and but the music refuses to wallow. It lifts, swells, and surges ahead, making a cathartic form of chaos: A celebration within the midst of collapse.

“Lyrically, the track was impressed by actual occasions and likewise goals,” frontman Michael Rocheford shares. “At first, I used to be making an attempt to convey the readability I felt when a private relationship was falling aside. The track developed as that mess performed out, and took on a extra uneasy and regretful perspective. I additionally integrated a dream which concerned reluctantly leaping off a cliff.”

Pulling eyes large shut
The face we lower by means of
Seeing what you need
When nothing might maintain true
We might waste the day
With pretend composure
Yeah, we don’t see it fairly the identical
So embrace the closure

That dream logic bleeds into the monitor’s surreal, cinematic edges – the place reflection and distortion blur collectively, and emotion overrides the whole lot else. The verses teem with dread and longing (“the mirrors turned you / reflecting the sounds, so deceptive”), however the refrain erupts like a scream in a silent room – plain, instant, and absolutely felt.

Can’t struggle the sensation
You don’t get me anymore
With every evening revealing
That we’ve closed one other door
Can’t struggle the sensation
You don’t get me anymore
With every evening revealing
That we’ve closed one other door

With “Can’t Battle the Feeling,” Home of Hurt proceed their regular evolution whereas staying true to their core: a sound that’s glossy, fashionable, and unrelentingly human. This can be a track you progress to as a lot as you are feeling it. It’s nightlife and nightmare, heartbreak and launch. Don’t struggle the sensation – simply give up to it.

It’s taken maintain once more
Assuming eyes, as soon as main
Pacing by the sting
Opening arms name to me
I can’t see it, however everybody is aware of
I can’t see it, however everybody is aware of
Everybody is aware of
Everybody is aware of

Snuggle’s “Mud” is dreamy, tender, and above all else, spellbinding.

An intoxicating different reverie filled with uncooked, heavy, understated feeling, the Copenhagen duo’s newest single is delicate and devastating abruptly. There’s a quiet energy in its softness – this sense that emotion is seeping by means of the stillness, the gentleness, the breaths, the void. snuggle show that you simply don’t must scream or shout to let all of it out.

Constructed on dream-pop guitar textures and a hypnotic breakbeat groove, “Mud” fuses visceral emotion with a woozy, slow-motion ambiance. Andrea Thuesen’s voice drifts like smoke by means of Vilhelm Unusual’s lo-fi manufacturing, spinning a surreal imaginative and prescient of affection and loss on the finish of the world. “Burning cities, cicadas silent / Every little thing is dying,” she sings, her tone breathy and serene even because the imagery collapses round her. It’s a track that confronts heaviness by floating above it, discovering magnificence in oblivion.

Dust - snuggle
Mud – snuggle
Salt trails on my pores and skin,
your fingers following them
Diving into your eyes, ocean deep,
sand grains in my tooth
I’m grinding
Burning pine bushes, cicadas singing
the mountainside is altering
Orange flames are consuming the stays
of the day

“The track began as a very totally different, actually melancholic country-style riff and have become what it’s now,” snuggle inform Atwood Journal. “It’s virtually just like the chords and funky drums didn’t wish to observe the place the lyrics had been going. We had been excited about how the world feels extra misplaced than ever in our lifetime and, on the identical time, being near somebody you’re keen on and desirous to be there ceaselessly – that double-sided, unusual feeling.”

They describe “Mud” as their “love track for an apocalypse,” a phrase that captures the emotional core of the monitor completely. “Sunburnt pores and skin, melting ice cream, and chaos buzzing at the back of everybody’s thoughts,” the duo clarify. “We love songs that really feel like they belong in a sure second in time, whether or not it’s the listener’s second or our personal – it’s one thing we steer in the direction of. The ‘finish of the world’ half refers back to the lyrics: Cicadas which can be silent, all that.”

Orange peel below my nails,
the candy juice touches my lips
Your lips on my neck

Candy phrases mentioned below your breath

We’re respiration nonetheless
Ashes within the windowsill

Impressed by Bowery Electrical’s album Beat – particularly its use of tape loops and breakbeats – “Mud” leans right into a dreamlike hypnosis that feels each historical and futuristic. “The best way they use tape loops and breakbeats to construct these tremendous hypnotic tracks is so cool,” the band share. “Extremely advocate when you haven’t checked it out.”

And whereas the track could also be constructed on contradiction – quiet chaos, tender collapse, heavenliness amidst despair – that’s precisely what provides it its glow. “If the world’s ending, we’d as nicely exit with a very good soundtrack,” they are saying. “However actually, we simply hope folks join with it in no matter approach is sensible to them – and that the world doesn’t finish!”

An intimate different whisper, “Mud” lingers like an odd reminiscence of one thing you haven’t lived but. snuggle actually do say it greatest themselves: “This can be a love track for an apocalypse… Miss David Lynch.”

Ash trails in your pores and skin,
my fingers following them
The wall paint is melting,
these 4 partitions and all they comprise
Gone, is gone
Burning cities, cicadas silent
Every little thing is dying
Mud, what’s left of us
Ashes
Ashes to ashes
Ashes to ashes

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