Being so self absorbed by coping with pain that my wasted life slips by unnoticed, losing pieces of myself along the way until I realise too late I have missed the chance to leave my mark on an ever shrinking world as I am trapped in my own mind. That I will die forgotten as entropy takes its inevitable toll and I slowly disintegrate, decaying and dissolving into the ocean of pain I spent my whole life trying to escape.

Walk Into The Ocean

Link to Gravedigger:  https://ffm.to/mxmsgravedigger

MXMS is short for “Me and My Shadow" and is singer Ariel Levitan and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Dawson.   The self-produced duo from New York City and small-town Oklahoma creates funeral pop fusing classic melodic songwriting with dark unfiltered chaos driven by a thousand forms of fear.

“Gravedigger” is both a winter cry of sexual freedom and an macabre warning to future ill-intended suitors of Ariel.  Moving gracefully through a flow of grinding synthesizers and drum machines, Ariel reveals her story that twists from danger to desire with a dash of resentment singing:

Six deep swim with fish
floating on the river
You're going on a devil dance
do the Macarena
black on my eyes
and they cold as a cadaver
i'm immortal motherfucker
can't see me in the mirror
 
Using visual audio and cinematic foley, producer and keyboardist Jeremy Dawson weaves samples of fire, car crashes and electrical storms with crushed beats and oscillating bass to push the lyric into a viewable interpretation.   It’s a future forwarded peak hour low tempo banger with a dead-end result for the antagonist.

Gravedigger

Stream here: hive.co/l/mxms-deathrow

MXMS
instagram.com/mxmsisdead
facebook.com/mxmsisdead
twitter.com/mxms

We Are: The Guard
www.wearetheguard.com
instagram.com/wearetheguard
facebook.com/theguardofficial
twitter.com/wearetheguard

Walk Into The Ocean

Engineering Bureau

Related tracks