One of my fellow exchange students was named Alyx, and she was from New Zealand. We'd written letters to each other arranging to meet up and spend a day hanging out in 's-Hertogenbosch. It ended up being a wonderful time that I didn't want to end, but I had to come back to Deurne for a birthday party (of a girl named Rianka). That's why there's the line "not appear and not explain and act like I forgot"). I wrote "An Aftermath" on the train between the two engagements. This song captures the feeling of being, for a brief moment, very much alive and awake and inspired when otherwise prone to sadness, and I'm pretty sure that I was going for the same mood as Depeche Mode's "But Not Tonight." I remember the opening guitar riff came first when I was writing this.
lyrics
An Aftermath
It was all so real
The time the day so pure
A final word a smile
Intentions still unsure
But I can make one promise
Sent away from you
Trading bliss for knowledge
Of what I pursue
You have never made me feel so sure of what I want
To not appear and not explain and act like I forgot
Giving in the time to answer, just leave on the light
I have hope that you will sleep as well as me tonight
It was all so rapid
A word into the next
Talking about creation
And leaving me perplexed
But I will heed the wisdom
Of letting go my thoughts
Making now alive
What formerly was not
And though it’s temporary
I find I want to smile
So here is to the time today
And maybe sometime later
In a while
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
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