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Gargoyles Season 2, Episode 18: "Upgrade" PART 2/2

"WAY WITH ME" pulses in diffuse emotional vapour. Abstracted and half-remembered, on the other side of a cassette bleeding through from a hazy dream. Built around layered and deteriorated tape textures, dark and anachronistic synth-wave forced through amorphous sci-fi bass pop. The sound and process draw from a memory deep in Cardinal’s childhood—an early shoegaze cassette warped by a rogue Walkman. At the start of Side B, a fragment of the final track from Side A would always bleed through in reverse. Twisted. Degraded. Slightly different each time. That broken version became the true version—the only one that mattered. It was imperfect, but it had gravity. The track is nostalgia imprinted and actualized as an anachronistic dimension—where memory and love jam the signal bleed of songs you once knew. Realities passing in the night.

WAY WITH ME

"BLACK SUN RAYS" echoes the mental and emotional disintegration of a physicist—the Jumper— one of the ETERNITY ARRAY team navigating the Liminal Nether post-event. Approximately 27 days
after the shift, the Jumper and their squad began initiating jumps, hoping to reconnect with lost moments or loved ones. All signals were go. All signals were wrong. Emerging in an infinitely expanding monochrome cityscape, they faced only fragmentation and mimicry. The mantra: The night. The road. became the only stable element—a fractured echo that haunts the Jumper's mind. There may never have been a way back. This cinematic dark folk and gothic country-inspired duet between Réal
Cardinal and Mari Kattman (Metropolis Records) becomes a study in merging identity, recursion, and fatalistic longing. Their collaboration—following 2019’s "Monolith" and "Riverbound"—pushes the emotional edge into an obliterated liminal horizon.

BLACK SUN RAYS feat Mari Kattman

"SIGNAL TO NETHER" opens with a devastating half-time blast of neuro bass and glitch-infused IDM stutters, establishing its shattered pace before Cardinal’s vocals slide into focus. By the one-minute mark, the track explodes into a chant of We are eternal — grounding the track’s central themes of fractured duality and competing realities. Overlapping vocals present divergent lyrical interpretations of the same moment, colliding and separating like interference patterns. A 6/8 operatic bridge emerges from chaos, layered with dozens of voices, before collapsing back into chugging guitars and ratcheting bass rhythms. As the song decays into broken versions of itself, muffled and glitched into noise, the
ETERNITY ARRAY experiment begins.

SIGNAL TO NETHER

"ETERNITY ARRAY" functions as a brief but pivotal hinge — a haunting interlude of filtered acoustic guitar and noise. A short lyrical fragment calls forward to a later track before giving way to a field recording-style sound design piece: a lone voice speaking from within the Liminal Nether. The
perspective is that of the Jumper from "BLACK SUN RAYS" — making this track both a conceptual prequel and existential diary fragment.

ETERNITY ARRAY

"WAVELIKE" ventures into particle-wave desperation. Two individuals—one particle, one wave— attempt to bridge the divide across the Liminal Nether. Their coherence is shattered. The only way to communicate is through the oscillations of interference. With brutal sonic architecture, WAVELIKE harnesses paradox, signal blur, and collapsing logic. Reality diverges. Only the pulse remains. The song’s explosive breaks and vocoded hooks reflect a desperate reaching—a flicker of meaning in
recursive collapse.

WAVELIKE

"HOMEWARD" reimagines Comaduster’s earlier track "Where Do You Belong, Now" as a parallel-universe version of itself. Vocals and Lyrics written and performed by Mari Kattman (Metropolis Records) and Webb Cardinal on acoustic
and classical guitars, it’s a swirling, emotive centerpiece of layered vocal intimacy and deep melodic longing. The Reese bass roars in under cinematic swells, drawing the listener through recursive memory
with renewed urgency. In this timeline, maybe things happened differently. Maybe belonging means something else entirely.

HOMEWARD ft Mari Kattman

"THE LESS YOU KNOW" is a detailed traversal—an anachronistic walk through collapsed timelines and recursive artifacts. The physical world bends around memory, trying to reconstruct itself through the very words spoken. Alex Reed (Seeming, Artoffact Records) provides a lyrical noir vocal performance—evocative, time-washed, eerily specific—interpreted spatially by Cardinal’s sound design. Guitars from Elijah Hennig fracture and reinforce this vision. Their collaboration stretches from glitchy noir exposition to 90s pop-industrial anthemic plateaus, caught in looped recollections. Built from blind exploration, each version of the song bled into the next—distorting truth, layering emotion. It's all signal jam. And still… the less you know, the better.

THE LESS YOU KNOW feat Seeming

"MIMIC" detonates with industrial-infused jungle rhythms and massive sub bass hits. Within the chaos, fractured vocal samples whisper like ghosts—the voices of lives unlived, of timelines skipped. The final
third of the track becomes a doom-infused, down-tuned reprisal of "MEMORY ECHOES," bent through gravity and distortion until it nearly disappears under its own weight.

MIMIC

"PASSAGE AETERNUM" concludes the album. Guitars stretch across time like dying echoes, layered in repetitions so deep they reveal a solitary pulse beneath. The song builds and folds inward, showing overlapping versions of itself like shifting glass. A final resolve. The LZP coalesces. All roads lead here.

PASSAGE AETERNUM

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