#seeming music

[aenthroppe]

I need more people who are unhinged about ThouShaltNot/Seeming's music I can't keep popping up in my friend's dms bc i noticed another mention of the sun in a song text 😭 they're suffering enough I can't keep doing this to them.

[definetorule-blog]

I strongly associate this song with Henry Winter.

[aenthroppe]

The writing's drawings on the wall

Last weekend marked the one-year anniversary of me discovering the band ThouShaltNot and subsequently the rest of Alex Reed's discography. To celebrate I put on the album SOL - A self-banishment ritual and went absolutely haywire on the walls in my bedroom :)

I mainly used markers and facepaint. It felt so good and visceral to apply the paint directly to my hands and feel the roughness of the walls. It was very real in that way ;3

Most of these can be directly connected to songs on the album, the outline of a person is very clearly inspired by Phantom Limb, the rows of hands turning into claws came into existence while Feral was playing.

The mural of the sun was drawn throughout the album. Started out with the intention to just draw this massive, overbearing, all-encompassing ball of flame. Once the black shape underneath it came to be I was suddenly taken aback as I looked up at the massive figure and saw — my sona - my reflection — in it.

The self-banishment ritual was a complete success. Because at the end I never wanted to be part of this reality more. And I am here. With you. And I will be here. And Reality will be afraid. Because, Darling, we are dangerous 💖

[aenthroppe]

Next time let's get raised by wolves

[aenthroppe]

😍😍😍

[aenthroppe]

Ough birdwatchers guide to atrocity is literally still so good

I love the song progression the most.

"the fates" as the Opening statement. Atrocity is imminent. There's nothing you can do to stop it. So how do you cope?

You "Go Small". With the fast and steady backing drum beat to accentuate that even though fate is coming; so are you.

The ego-favorable perspective is emphasized in "Someday Lily". Remove yourself further from the world, the atrocities around you. If they want to see you dead you gotta keep living. But remember there's kindness, most of all within you.

For without kindness - "The Flood Comes For You". And god I love the anger in this song. It's a contrast to Someday Lily but in the way that it's the other side to the same coin.

'I will gladly gladly drown' says the flood, but the response of the next song is clear – "Remember To Breathe". You won't be the one to single handedly end the world in one fell swoop. You're in this for the long haul. Through the pins and needles of the mundane.

And after that last breath is taken we get right back to the entropical hubris of "End Studies"!! Top 3 songs of the album imo. It's even more proactive than "The Flood Comes For You" in its strive for an End.

And as it fizzles out we get to "Permanent". The only thing that's permanent is irrevocable change. Loss. Destruction. BUT it also clearly states there's always another way out. And we can leverage these.

the way "Permanent" ends with 'No need to be good now' to lead into "Reality is afraid" is so beautiful to me. It's such a triumphant song. Declaring that yes, you are powerful, even after everything that has happened to you. Every atrocity. Every death. You're still here. And you can shape reality as you like. Fuck what everyone else is saying. I care about me and my and I can manifest that care even if reality would deem it ridiculous.

This, taken to the extreme leads us to the conclusion that is "Learn to Vanish". Listing a bunch of "[verb] a [noun]" groups to illustrate just what it is we fill our lives with. But there's absolutely no connective tissue between them. It feels unreal. As if those things never really happened. It closes with the Titular "learn to Vanish" as the last action one has supposedly done. And after vanishing - you gotta celebrate

"Celebration Song" is the album's closer. And goes on a tour from outside reality, where you're powerful enough to bring back life from extinction, to a forceful reintegration to reality. But this isn't framed as damnation. You're still powerful. You have control over yourself.

And the birds will still fly.

So come on, won't you celebrate with me?

[terminal-entropy]

Leaving reality is itself not the only productive path

—Alex Reed

[definetorule-blog]

I feel with every inch of my body that Seeming's (ThouShaltNot's) music is for those who would eat it like a cake until they are sick, and then take another bite; and then ask for another piece.