Can I go where there is an ocean floor?
Anchored to every mind like mine is?
Oh how it looks from way out at this elevation
When everything my mind sees is a landslide
You try to escape my lungs and my teeth, I'm not wasting light
Gunned down by day so we crash through tired
I'm not that young I lie wide-eyed and bear
I'm listening for now
I dream like days we haven't seen yet
The sky is full of things that bring us passage
Dwelling happily in things as they are
We'll meet the laws of gravity
And run fresh water over
Our mouths and claws and scream over ocean
This is where I'm building my new lungs and coloring my mind
For all the days that I've spent half asleep, I never changed my face
A love of fate that carries me out beyond the last days
So I can see forever out into space, dark and ancient
And bite down hard on written wisdom of overmen
An unrelenting refusal to wander off the earth
Streamlining their post-metal sprawl through a sharper melodic focus, the Scottish juggernauts' third LP is labyrinthine yet approachable. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 25, 2024