Track 5 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

Waterline. Get it?

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Waterline

Track 4 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

How does someone that knows they're probably going to die a fiery death get back in the plane? I think I'm gonna make it. I think I'm gonna make it. 

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Black Thursday

Track 3 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

The goal of therapy is to integrate one's internal selves.

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Integrity

Track 2 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

Sinew track.

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Class Unknown

Track 1 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

The sea witch. The siren, calling. The crux of this song is that the hero dives in, but in the end it's she who feels fear.

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Ursula

Track 1 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

I wrote this in one sitting on the acoustic and then built it up. It became a white whale. The most "grunge" influenced track on the album.

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Good

Track 8 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

She kept saying we were twin flames. Everything burned. It was originally a love song...

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Twin Flame

Track 9 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

Is it better to numb yourself until you feel nothing?

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

The Nothing

Track 10 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

This one's about the disastrous coping mechanism I employed to get through the darkness I felt. "Verst" means "understand" in German. 

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Verst Using

Track 11 from the album, ELEMENTAL, by PARSE.

This was written right at the end of this journey. It saved me.  

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Elemental is the debut album from bleakgaze outfit, Parse. Equal parts haunting and distorted, years of environmental and internal turmoil are expressed via rich and contrasting musical layers. Over 11 tracks, weaving together complex time signatures, simple chords, and vivid sonic imagery, the album tells a morose story of love and loss. And the pain of living in dark times.

Well

The Start

my half from the split with the talented @diffraction_band

will it ever get better?

do you believe yourself?

i am a pestilence, in my absence the universe rejoices and you are saved.

2/3

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i will be releasing this upcoming EP incrementally on soundcloud, with the full release following on spotify, bandcamp, and youtube once its finished <3 you sc girlies are special to me (dont tell the spotifites about our little secret)

sometimes giving up is okay

the self-portrait of a lifelong burden

you are so loved

its easier to just forget

its your fault, why am i apologizing?

Parse is a musical project devised to explore and reflect on the implications of love between imperfect people. The challenges of doing so with honesty met by a longing for understanding in a casually cruel, indifferent universe.

shoegaze? more like pawgaze. noisy shoegaze inspired nonsense produced out of a bedroom.

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