Wormrose - Afton Light
With Love And Squalor
Honor Our Kingdom
I Am A False Prophet And God Is A Superstition
Kirk
I recently realized that it had been nearly a full rotation around the sun since the release of Psalm 797, an album born from grief and pain and loss. Preceding a year of intense and terrifying transition, self reflection, growth, and failures. A year I'd love to tell you more about via the sonic vibrations of a new album, a new start, both a beginning and an ending, an adventure I was neither adjusted nor properly prepared for. To you, dear listener, I present: Wormrose.
Wormrose translates directly in Swedish to Maskros -> Dandelion for your English-speaking folks. A flower (or a weed depending on personal disposition) in a scheduled and predictable state of change. As a child we foraged its leaves for salads, we let our breath delight in the spreading of their seeds, we judged and measure time passed depending on their states of change. The dandelion itself, whether expressed or not, remained a measure of time and a definition of such as well throughout both childhood and adolescence.
In honor of the aforementioned year, I wanted to represent this using a few keywords attributable to both Wormrose and the emotional self. Words such as liminal, fractal, discomforting, static, and shame.
Liminal as in liminal space. A space of transition and change, often empty and abandoned. Fractal as in predictably progressive, static and discomforting in stark contrast to all above statements. Shame in its ever-present form for what's done, not done, what's rejected, left behind, forgotten, and passed (to include the grief thereof).
I have lost. People and places. And like the Wormrose I scatter and fracture, as we all do, in order to find new ground to stand on and let myself rest in discomfort.
I truly hope you'll enjoy it! I know I truly enjoyed writing, recording, and producing it. Please stream the full album on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, and all other streaming services as it becomes available over the next 24-48 hours (depending on the service).
Best regards,
Afton Light, 2022
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