afterlife dating - papyrophobia

friend’s house

Kentucky based band, afterlife dating, make the most of a caustic, yet often surprisingly soothing, aesthetic on 'Papyrophobia'. Worlds collide as harsh meets heavenly.

Gargantuan drums are met with corrosive textures. Reverberant snares are set, and await their prey. Indecipherable screams. Tortured shrieks. Pain on another level - constant and uncaring. Elements of noise rock, shoegaze, screamo and ambient come together to produce a dissonant aesthetic - both sonically and stylistically - that wears a light, ethereal, wisp-y shroud. Veiled in a sense of suffering, there's light which shines through, although the clouds seem pretty constant.

Papyrophobia: the illogical fear of paper. Paper cuts. The written word. Letters. A response to the unknown. A deeply rooted concern of the soul. Insurmountable. Peaks of a cavernous height. Troughs of a cavernous depth. An extreme spectrum with little in between. All or nothing. Wasteland on the way to either end. The fear of everything. A world of hazardous objects. Obscene surroundings. Red flags at each and every turn. Alarms ring out - infinitely inwards. A deep set of biological hand-me-downs. Passed on like a bad game of Chinese whispers. The story distorted along its path. Taken out of context and butchered. Fractured. Smashed into smithereens. Shards shot in each and every direction. The chance that a whole of any kind will be recovered is infinitesimal. A fraction of a fraction.

Afraid to die, afraid to live. Afraid of it all.

A part of Seattle's 'friends house records' which consists of acts such as carter c, among many other up-and-coming artists, afterlife dating find themselves in good hands; among a solid scene. A space of fervent growth and potential.