Posts must be related to Have A Nice Life and affiliated artists (Black Wing, Giles Corey, Consumer, et al.). Whosoever lives, so shall they die and may they die a drowning death, with all of Life inside their mouths, and naught but stones inside their lungs, like David with the skull, dwelling upon it every second, the impossible trials of ceasing, stopping, ending…” You never really know what you’re going to get when approaching those experiences and this release, and that’s part of the thrill.“I am base and I am lever I push the Earth into the water. They have found the moment or moments before those self-confident bursts of energy captured elsewhere, and on Sea of Worry, Have A Nice Life have launched into full-on, sonic exploration of these darkly cavernous experiences. Especially in those anthemic post-punk tracks, the band include plenty of somewhat surprisingly catchy guitar lines - and right alongside these moments, the band march on with their deconstructed punk music atmosphere. More broadly than that particular example, the band drive home the feeling of deeply unsettling, metaphysical questioning. That’s another attention-grabbing moment - after perhaps settling into the groove of the band’s journey, Have A Nice Life roll out that gradually more unsettling audio sample from a seemingly real-world preacher.

Track five doesn’t have a single lyric, and the thirteen minute final track includes an audio sample of a preacher pronouncing eternal damnation as music slowly but surely builds with self-reflective, self-critical lyrical feelings packed inside. There are several layers of juxtapositions that drive in this point - on the broadest level, the first four tracks on the record include driving post-punk songs that approach anthem status on repeated listens, while when the following three tracks come in, the band drop down into more direct musical contemplation. Their new record ultimately feels like a captivating musical exploration of the psychological tension associated with our unique place in the modern world. Nothing really falls by the wayside here - even the quiet moments on this album feel enveloped into the band’s apparent vision of capturing some of the vestiges of this musical “civilization.” The first and second halves of Sea of Worry vary at times dramatically in content, but the methodically unfolding musical expressions of a deeply personally relatable tension ensure that each note feels taken up into a larger, irresistibly poignant whole. The band amplify the delicate but intricate dynamics that they work with to magnificent degrees on this release. In case you hadn’t heard - the Connecticut duo Have A Nice Life are back with a new full-length album called Sea of Worry emerging November 8 via The Flenser.

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