“Pitches the listener into a shadowy, foreboding world full of needling intensity and crushing weight, the vocals emerging from within this tumult like the helpless cries of the damned.” That’s how we described ‘Rest in Salt’, the first single from MX LONELY‘s upcoming EP SPIT on Candlepin Records. A song about “being trapped in purgatory, pure and simple,” as lead Rae Hass explained, where the visceral overwhelm of anxiety has some part of you jealous of the cold sleep of the dead.
If you still need convincing as to the heft of the MX LONELY sound after that, then new single ‘Papercuts’ follows up with an equally forceful punch. The band’s previous release Cadonia was not without its own weight, though one held at arms length, as though watching a drastic event unfold from a certain distance. SPIT forgoes this remove to pitch the listener into the heart of the turmoil, and ‘Papercuts’ performs this change in real time. Snapping to from the remove of a dream to the immediacy of real life.
“’Papercuts’ is a pretty literal song,” the band explain. “Rae had a horrible dream that someone close to them had this papercut and it just wouldn’t stop bleeding and there was nothing they could do but kill them to take away the pain. The song structure reflects the structure of the dream. One moment you’re seeing ‘your body from the outside in’ stabbing your friend to death and the next you’re speeding out of control down your hometown highways.”
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Watch the video directed by Nara Avakian below:
Spit is out on the 6th February via Candlepin Records and you can pre-order it now.