You paint flowers on the parts of yourself you don’t like
I spent some time pulling thorns out of my side
And don’t you ever get sick
Of being right about it?
You burn the candle to the quick
Broke the glass and tried to melt that
Like it’d grow back if you didn’t
A lot’s changed but you peel back the new growth
Crush the scraps underfoot until it’s comfortable
How can you haunt yourself if you’re never home?
Written lists on your skin
You still don’t know where to go
Takes me back to my high school classroom during the days of binging Inio Asano's old manga scanlations before anything was licensed. At that time, I was discovering many kinds of Asian shoegaze, but I've never heard anything like this. Makes me think of Pasteboard, Supecar, and Midnight Pingpong a bit, and it's funny bc the first two I listen have blue album covers too. Lu
Bracing post-hardcore meets festival-ready rock on the Tokyo band's sharp new EP, mixed and mastered by Will Yip (Turnstile, Title Fight). Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 8, 2024