The lyricism here is actually peak and mixed with the instrumentals it has an almost dream-like quality to it. This is the pinnacle of Midwest emo and I'm not even kidding.
It's decent for what it is, but breakcore is just personally not my thing. I did find a lot of the sampling funny though, and track 3 has the best name for any song.
Holy shit.
Even in the early days of The Grievance Club, they were still releasing genre defying music that changes the way I look at song writing.
The lyrics here are so interesting and insanely fun to analyse. This verse in particular stands out to me;
But a sword undrawn is just dead weight,
and I can't reconcile the shame.
In between the ivory, I am inevitably between
my mind and the words that I eat.
When I hear something like that, what I think about is the mask we sometimes wear when ... read more