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"The Morning After" blends elements of emo with the sound of future pop. Combining strummed acoustic guitars with big drops.

The Morning After

After Thought

Where We Are Forever

The Other Side Of This

I wrote “Better Than That" (Stream/Buy: https://bnd.lc/betterthanthat) as a response to a difficult time I was experiencing in one of my relationships. It was a relationship I thought I knew so well, but suddenly and without warning, that relationship was thrown into chaos. I could always depend on the strength of this relationship to help guide me through things and when I wrote the song during the summer of 2018, at that time, many things in my life were scattered, and I didn’t have the stability or comfort from this relationship that I was used to. It was like the rug was pulled out from under my feet and in addressing this relationship, I came up with the title thinking to myself, “I thought I knew us better than that”. I was left thinking to myself, “Did I rely too much on this relationship? How did I let myself get so attached and not even realize it?” It’s like I needed to find the cause and effect to why things had changed so drastically.

However, going through this rough patch with this relationship, actually made things stronger and better between us. There was a lesson there that I had to learn, when shit breaks and it heals, it heals stronger than it was before. It’s hard to see that when you’re going through it, but once I came out the other side, I looked back and saw why this particular relationship had to fall apart in order to get put back together, and really the lesson or the moral of the story to the song is, no matter how well you THINK you know something or someone, things can always change, and it’s up to us how we respond to that change.

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Unbreakable

Never Wanted To

Fucked Over

There's Nothing Left To Say

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Toxic people are the worst, actually being drawn in and consumed by a toxic relationship is the worst. My new single “Wasted On You” is about exactly that.

I spent so much time thinking I was important enough in a relationship, only to discover I was completely blinded the entire time. I was infatuated, and wanted the attention I thought this person was giving me. I gave myself some time and space from this relationship, and as time passed so did the toxic haze I was operating under from this person.

There’s a double meaning to this song, the first part is feeling that intoxication of the relationship, the excitement, the attraction, it’s all-consuming, to the point where you feel like you’re just waiting for the text or the call from that person, and every scrap of their time they give you just feeds into the toxicity. The second part of it is, waking up and realizing that all of your time, your talent, your love and your effort in the relationship was totally wasted on them. The appreciation was never there. They never truly recognize exactly who you are, or what you might be going through. It was such a shitty experience to wake up one day, out of the fog and realize that I was in one of these relationships, but alas, “Wasted On You” was born.

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Wasted on You

My new single “Remedy” is out now! http://ceem.bnd.lc/remedy

It's a sequel to another song I wrote, “Unbreakable” which was in response to living through the 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France, on Bastille Day. I’m not trying to market any sort of tragedy, so let’s get that out of the way real quick: I wrote “Unbreakable” because I came back from that trip feeling shattered and confused, and writing the song helped put me back together. I sat down and wrote “Unbreakable” feeling angry and frustrated that this broken human had irrevocably changed my life, however, having come to that realization that I would never give into fear, I began to realize that the situation had actually created something new in me. I understood that this was now something that was woven into my DNA and it somehow made me stronger, I found strength that I didn’t know that I had. Instead of cowing down to fear, I began facing my fears head on.
 
When I was writing “Unbreakable”, I didn’t want to shy away from exactly what it’s about, running away from gunfire and mayhem. As cathartic and healing as writing the song was, I still felt that I needed to face my ultimate fear and go back to the scene of the crime...
 
I went back to Nice in July 2019 for Bastille Day, alone this time, and retraced the steps and the horrors that took place. I wanted to go back and finish writing my album Cruel World, but for the first four days I was there, the words wouldn’t come, there was some sort of glitch in my brain. I would put pen to paper and write but nothing felt authentic or genuine, until I made it through Bastille Day. There was some unconscious malfunction in the brain that wasn’t letting me write until I fully lived through that day, in that place again, and the following day, and so my song “Remedy” just started pouring out of me. I had to go back to the origin of trauma, find all of the broken pieces and put them back together and in the process, I wasn’t finding closure, because things like this you don’t get closure from, they become a part of you. That’s how and why I wrote this song: I found a Remedy for my own healing.
 
A friend met me in Nice, and I walked him through the places and the events of that night, and I found that as I did this, talking about it, shedding light on this “thing” the weight and gravity of the situation began to lose its grip. I started formulating and arranging “Remedy” in Nice, and while I was on the train to Paris, I kept working on it and by the time I pulled into Gare de Lyon, the song was born into the world. I took what I had back to Seattle to finish recording it, and how the song ends, just repeating “I found the Remedy” is a declarative chant. 

I want people to know that if I can find the Remedy I needed, then you're not alone and can find the Remedy you need to continue to heal and find strength you never knew you had.

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Remedy

Better Than That (Deep Moon Remix) is a brooding throw back to 80's synth wave.

Better Than That (Deep Moon Remix)

CEEM is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter and producer who steadily erases boundaries to encourage inclusion through his immersive electro pop musicality. With a genre he dubs as ‘Emotronic,’ the artist blends electronic music with emo, merging 80s glitzy synth pop with the transformative broodiness of emo music, strung together with lyrics covering themes of rebellion, inclusiveness of the marginalized, heartbreak, and acceptance. 

The fire in CEEM was ignited from a young age when he realized music was the one thing he wanted to pursue. He first studied classical piano, and would later complete a degree in audio engineering. To CEEM, music is a part of his DNA; it’s the one thing that sets his soul alight, and he is compelled to share it with the rest of the world. He released his debut album Creative Ways to Self Destruct in 2005, inspired by the indie dance movement of the early 00's, which echoed bands such as The Postal Service and Metric. His first EP Equilibrium was released in 2012, taking a turn into synth pop and other 80s-inspired soundscapes, and a few years later, released the single "The Instigator" which pulls from his lifelong influences such as David Bowie, Madonna, and Eurythmics. 

After a brief hiatus, CEEM has further matured his sound, diving deeper into the reasons as to why he creates music.  "As the world becomes more divided,” states the artist, “we need music and art to bring us together." CEEM wants to be inclusive of those feeling marginalized by the events in the world, as he has witnessed and been a part of it first hand. "The future is where love needs to reign, we owe it to one another to protect one another." Not shying away from the fight and with more love to give than ever before, CEEM released his new album Cruel World in October 2019.

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