Written in November or December of 1995, this one was an attempt to get pseudo-medieval. The melody and bass are in parallel fifths, and the prechorus is a straight-up quotation of the 14th-century's biggest pop song, "L'Homme Armé," which I'd learned from noted (and sadly passed) early music performer John Fleagle for my fifth-grade medieval festival. The lines about blood, tears, and birth were part of an ongoing obsession with literary abjection, which I'd picked up reading Burroughs in 8th grade.
lyrics
Mother’s Blood
Swaddled in mother’s blood
Your armor for today
It’s a boy new and icy cold
Weight of Earth
Hungry birth
Conflagration’s prey
L’homme armé doibt on doubter
On a fait partout crier
Que chascun se viegne armer
D’un haubregon de fer
You my son my weakness here
Cast you off
You my strength my source of fear
Cast you off
You my heart and you my life
Cast you off
On a journey take my strife
Cast you off from me
Swaddled in father’s tears
Some things never change
It’s a quest in my cowardice
In my place
Burns my face
Road ahead is strange
I force this upon you
Forced on me as well
No more forgiving now
Built in my own cell
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I am a queer goth who works in climate. thanks for giving my soul an outlet for all this despair. I too dream of gutting billionaires... and would gladly drown when the flood comes for them. thanks for helping me keep the abyss at bay and stay in the fight. can't thank you enough for this album. alder-knight
Darkwave synth that directly addresses our modern dystopian political environment, with proceeds going to the Voting Rights Project. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2018
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On both Avalanche and the Whirlwind Remix particularly, Seeming manages the seemingly impossible feat of making it sound like there's 2 or 3 different songs going on simultaneously, in the best possible way. Such a huge spacious sound, and immaculate production and songwriting.
Also, I'm pretty sure Leonard Cohen would have heartily approved of this version of "Avalanche". <3 Conor Connolly