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thirty three year old🐇
no sacrifices for the binary
partner of @z.vallis
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I didn’t particularly enjoy releasing our new album.

Over the nine months we spent since our last show: finishing up what we felt was our best ever work, and preparing for it to enter the wider world, I found myself becoming deeply disillusioned with the “industry” side of things (for lack of a better term). The race for hype wore me down, turning my optimism about the music and how it would be understood into pessimism, dogging me in a worsening fashion till halfway through release day.

I know a part of this is just down to my failure to judge things more positively, but I can’t deny the very real exhaustion of putting an immense amount of time, effort and money into something that can be as easily consumed and dismissed by others as a chocolate bar. There’s something nihilistic about the selling of the music that I have found immensely frustrating, especially when sandwiched between the exaggerated (but necessary) emphasis of violent, kinetic language that promises the “heaviest band ever” to an audience that has a thousand similar artists to choose from. I don’t want to disparage the efforts of those that did that for us, I truly am grateful for them, but I have to acknowledge my perspective on the rat race.

We live in an age of artificiality: pre-packaged reality and social platform-ready emotion with a commercial air. All of it designed to capture and hold our attention. It plays on a lot of volatile emotion, agitating and provoking. And I’m right here, trying not to play the game while saying how I feel, in my own corner.

So I can’t even blame the most cynical of folks turning away from what I’m trying to do with my bandmates in creating music that says, or makes you feel something. But it’s been lonely and difficult in longing for understanding. Playing our release show, as @kierancwhite captured wonderfully here, I finally felt that earnest connection I had been longing for. I experienced it in every fibre of my being, for fifty minutes: a sense that all of this is real, and it matters. But it’s in the room, with you and me.

If you can, please come through to our shows this month. I’m in need to shake your hand. Thanks, love to you all. ❤️‍🔥

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ArcTanGent was bloody great fun!! Saw and met loads of lovely people, watched some great bands, and quoted Hot Fuzz for a couple of hours the day after

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ATG, it's easy as 1-2-3.

That's a wrap on the annual 'TanGent and it was yet another banger as to be expected. Expert level hangs, tunes and eats and an overall elite time cemented into the archives. Shoutout to my Boolin Homies that I have the pleasure of sharing this time with as well as all of the other lovelies that graced me with their presence along the way.

Slides 3, 4 & 5 magnificently taken by the amazing @photosbylorna - couldn't be more chuffed with the concrete proof that I was, in fact, there.

#parkthebus #thinkaboutit #whentheneuronscomeoutfiring

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Kodak Gold, medium format, shot on an old flexaret during a photowalk with friends. Some real tries, some silly play, some pressing of the buttons not knowing what the fuck I’m doing. #analoguephotography #kodakgold200 #mediumformatfilm #flexaret #photowalk

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That was bloody lovely, @slamdunkmusic 🤘

#slamdunk #festivalseason #emotillidie

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I personally believe that Christmastime and New Year wouldn’t be complete without plenty of time spent being soppy with my beloved, lots of time with the dog, and also a good dose of Reality Unfolds (with a little bit of football too)

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just let me know when it's year of the rooster.

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“All life is suffering that basks in nothingness. All life is temporary, what lasts is consciousness” - Incineration Fest, 03/05/2025 🔥🏙️

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March of the penguins has come to a close, I've run out of yarn.

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Photos from friends' wedding yesterday. Much fun was had, the newly married couple are very happy, and the food was delicious.

Also the Death Well was just around the corner.

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Today it was 'dress up as a wizard/hobbit' day, on the way to the board games cafe and pho for dinner afterwards.

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