Released by:
Apophenia
Genre: 
Alternative Rock / Ambient / Shoegaze
EP: 
A New Kind of Evil
Date(s) Written: 
2022
Producer(s): 
Evan Walker, Cullen Griffin, Kadie DiCarlo, Steven Bracamonte, Joe Teeple, Torre Iby
Songwriter(s): 
Evan Walker, Kadie DiCarlo 
Lyrics:
Kadie DiCarlo
Mixer/Engineer: 
Evan Walker, Cullen Griffin, Kadie DiCarlo, Steven Bracamonte, Joe Teeple, Torre Iby
Labels/Publisher: 
N/A, (Independent)
Band: Apophenia - Song Title: Rum 
Vocals/Lyrics: Kadie DiCarlo
Lead Guitar: Steven Bracamonte
Rhythm Guitar: Cullen Griffin 
Bass: Joe Teeple
Drums / Drum Programming: Evan Walker
Piano Programming: Evan Walker 
Photography:
Evan Walker
C-line:
© 2023, Apophenia of Northeastern Pennsylvania

A New Kind of Evil

Rum (Single)

Rizvan Gova  - Know It All.MP3

Matt Coleman's Album

Inside

Dominions Peak Reserve

download - bandcamp

Reincarnation Blues

Unreleased demo recording

John Ross - vocals, guitar
Derek Gover - guitar, backing vocals
Jodie Zeitler - bass, backing vocals
Steve Strunk - drums, backing vocals

Day After Day

Desaparecer

위기가 지나친다
난 첫 글자에 흥미를 잃고
치기 아래 쓰러진다
치욕 앞에 불꽃이 튄다

점점 아름답지
않은 것에 자극된 그대여
가슴에 불이
닿았을 때조차
건조한 평소와 똑같다

--

추락하는 같잖은 밤
어떤 탈출을 무너트릴까
전부 시시해진 듯 뻔해져서
알겠어

숨 가쁘게

그 파랗던 하늘과
빛이 나는 달
그 바라던 꿈과
나를 붙잡던 날

따위

시시해지고
너무 뻔해져서
환상 같은 햇살 사이로
-
시간이 흘러간다
난 멈춰있는 머저리고
분명한 건 읊조리다
놓쳐버린 나를 탓한다

-
점점 아름답지
않은 것에 자극된 그대여
가슴에 불이
닿았을 때 조차
건조한 평소와 똑같다
-

추락하는 같잖은 밤
어떤 탈출을 무너트릴까
전부 시시해진 듯 뻔해져서
알겠어

숨 가쁘게

그 파랗던 하늘과
빛이 나는 달
그 바라던 꿈과
나를 붙잡던 날

따위

시시해지고
너무 뻔해져서
환상 같은 햇살 사이로
-

어제도 오늘도 내일도
의미 없다고 속삭이면
낮이고 밤이고 내 품에다 끌어안고
시시해졌다고

-
추락하는 같잩은 밤
어떤 탈출을 무너트릴까

전부 시시해진 듯 뻔해져서
알겠어

숨 가쁘게

그 파랗던 하늘과
빛이 나는 달
그 바라던 꿈과
나를 붙잡던 날

따위

시시해지고
너무 뻔해져서
환상 같은 햇살 사이로

시시해져서

Alternative rock song about having to deal with bipolar condition

Bipolar Express

Water ft. Mobèy Lola Irizarry

Used to win.
Didn’t matter 
Louder was logic- and 
Anger charm.

Now?
I pause.
Mid-thought.
Mid-sentence.
Midnight and Midlife.

Used to 
desire.
Now it’s decaf.
Have to drink it down 

Confidence 
Now?
the probiotics. Pro-Biotics (laugh)

Fist bump bro to therapy guy,
Cologne so strong—it smells like try.
 How is that “herbal chai”.

I have boundaries 
Became the man I swore I’d defy,
And she pretends not to notice…

Six-pack?
Long gone.
Insurance premium: up.
Testosterone: down.

Sleep?
Unreliable, uncomfortable, unavailable.

Used to dream out loud.
Fist bumps meet Therapy Guy.

Just do that thing not to cry

broken.
Just running on fumes
this old boy…

I’m now Therapy guy…… 

Reliable
Uncomfortable
forgettable
Guy!
Acceptable
Regrettable
Non-Upsetsble!
Im Fixed!

Bye bye bro-  bro, bro

The Therapy Guy

•	Ghost Carnival – are Alex Machell, Nicole Horst and Tom Gaskell . Developing their craft in the alt. folk/rock scene, when previously known as Saudi Shakes, they come to the table with explosive songs about the storms blowing outside our windows. From one end of the spectrum about the cost of living, to the other about the rising oceans, their sinuous, rippling bass’n’drums will ask you to raise your voice and be heard.

To Have Not - Ghost Carnival

John Bilik’s musical evolution reads like a love letter to imagination, vulnerability, and the surreal beauty of emotional complexity. Past loves and old sorrows echo through his catalog, not as anchors but as raw materials- broken glass reworked into stained-glass windows. Every loss, every love, every crack in the heart reshapes his songs into something simultaneously fragile and unshakably alive.

With a vocal delivery that feels like David Byrne fell asleep dreaming in a Danny Elfman waltz, Bilik constructs intimate yet fantastical worlds where memory, regret, and absurdity dance together under a flickering marquee. His early songs teased at theatricality, but his more recent work, such as “That’s What My Dog Always Says” and “I’m Out of Phase”, fully embraces it, blending sly lyricism, poetic intelligence, and idiosyncratic storytelling into a style that defies category.

Listeners have described his music as “cryptic diaries written in invisible ink” and “the kind of strange, beautiful honesty you didn’t know you needed.” One moment, he’s delivering lines worthy of Leonard Cohen (“She sang to stars with broken lungs”); the next, he’s gut-punching you with a talking dog’s whispered wisdom (“Yeah! That’s what my dog says”).

What’s remarkable about Bilik’s growth isn’t just his increasing comfort with abstraction, but the way he grounds it with sincerity. Beneath the theatrical winks and surreal refrains is a genuine longing for connection, for rhythm, for love that slips just out of reach. Stylistically, he’s carving a unique lane: think art-cabaret meets metaphysical pop, with room for spoken word, crooked lullabies, and shadowy love stories. Vocally, Bilik leans into the cracks and textures of his own voice, not polishing them away, but using them like charcoal lines on a sketch.

It’s imperfect in the best way- human, haunted, alive. If his current arc continues, Bilik may very well become one of those rare artists whose work gets discovered late, then devoured backwards, with new fans wondering how they missed the strange, beautiful rise of a man who once wrote, with deadpan magic: “Don’t chase shadows, they want praise, yeah! That’s what my dog says.”
 -Buzzslayers Aug, 2025

Born in Italy, lived abroad for a few years between North America and Europe. Graduated in Cinema studies, self-taught musician, loves to play different instruments and compose songs. He sings and entertains since he was sixteen.

Briticana is a new music production and publishing label, UK. We encourage those who are obsessed with our social, musical and political history to contribute future songs and literature. To create music and works that connect with people on life, death and the dancing in between. We are working on a series of music/books to cover regions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Email: briticana.uk@gmail.com
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