I’ve become everything I’ve ever hated.
A stranger draped in my own skin
The vices pry and burrow inside
Asphyxiate
Everything changes and everything grows.
Everything moves on and turns to smoke.
Still blinded by my past mistakes
Numb the pain and wash away
I lost myself, in an opaque haze
new hurt, new flesh, new sex
A thirst that is never quenched
the rope tightens ‘round my neck
Eyes close
A vile nature that can never be tamed
There is no hope for me
Croon through the wall
Splashes of light
Take me where I don't belong
Confined by a feral mind
A voyeur to my decay
Confined by a feral mind
Morality displaced
My eyes roll to the back of my head. My spine splinters and breaks. Thoughts pass like fingers through tall grass and i cant escape this Place — your head against my chest where my heart once struck.
Colors flash in and out of frame
No fulfillment for a wretch like me
I continue to retract from life
Stricken with the shame
I cant separate the I from the actual me
Eyes close... reflect... ignore the voices... deflect
I stare and no one stares back
I stare
A failed artist, a failed son, a failed lover, a fucking drunk.
Classic emo sing-a-longs trade blows with tormented post-hardcore passages on the Brooklyn outfit's powerful sophomore LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 3, 2024
Quite possibly the most full-on album I've ever listened to. Intense, and then some. 'Digital Tarpit' could describe both the track and the whole album: high-pitched guitar squeals that make your fillings itch coupled with merciless, suffocating heaviness. The Avenell-esque vocals top it off perfectly.
Brilliant - punishing, but brilliant. jim_fuego