Polaroid pictures of youth
Stretched across an empty room
Holding on to what I miss
I lost myself writing this
The desperate youth tell themselves it isn’t forever
But your tongue tastes bitter, and the stink is on your collar
I gave up on life after giving up on help
So I lie in a bed of scabs where I left myself
Let my soul sing
Let my spirit fly
I wonder what you’re thinking now?
Tell me who I was, I can’t accept what I’m becoming
Survival was remembering, now survival is forgetting
This face frightens me, this face frightens me
My father was an Irish gypsy traveller
Cruel and kind in equal measures
He used to say -
“If man is meek, then meeker the man, often in which we punish, and sacrifice the lamb”
Oh, anxiety
you cruel, cruel lover, you keep fucking me
Let my soul sing
Let my spirit fly
I wonder what you’re thinking now?
It hurts that I’m nothing more than a memory
Go rot with filth, just like me, just like me
Let my soul sing
Let my spirit fly
I wonder what you’re thinking now?
This one really goes deep. Tremendously heavy and bleak, yet crushingly groovy as well. You can easily see these guys destroying any venue they'd hit live with this. The heavy hitting slow to mid-tempo tunes are sort of tranceinducing. It's very easy to listen to it multiple times in a row or even get lost in it totally. mourner
I generally appreciate the album by album move away from hardcore towards extreme metal. Yet for me personally, this is where the balance is perfect. Kind of like Metallica's Ride the Lightning: subsequent albums were more sophisticated and complex, yet less intense, too. Great to come back to, again and again. jornfin
Terrific, marauding post-punk that will thrill fans of Idles with its pairing of cutting riffs and wry spoken/sung lyrics. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 26, 2022
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
Awesome psychedelic sludgy metal with some post-metal influences that build and morph often enough to stay fresh throughout each of the lengthy runtimes. Highly recommended for anyone looking for some psych-tinged sludgy goodness! Colin M.