a full-length collection of instrumentals about transformation and returning home.
Featuring a mix of metal and rock styles, plus ambience. This album deals with the concept of losing yourself and becoming something new, and returning to a place where you once belonged. It has some of my heaviest moments, but also some of my sweetest and most soothing.
This will likely be my last Skeletal Works release for a while, as I am planning to take a break from music production to focus on other endeavors. I hope everyone enjoys.
Obviously, all of my music is instrumental, and so there aren't really lyrical themes to unpack or any true canonical meanings to any of these tracks. They are all up to interpretation, but I want to talk a little on what some of these tracks mean to me.
So my favorite track on the album, and the one that it evolved around is A Soul Lost at Sea. It was the first track I wrote for it, and it generated this image in my head of some poor soul, floating on a raft or a makeshift boat in the night, having just fled or escaped some harrowing and transformative experience. This person, whoever they are, has reached the end of one life, and the end of hope, but still carries on. They have survived the experience, but they will never be the same person again. This is my interpretation, anyways.
My personal life is undergoing its own transformation, and a lot of my emotions surrounding that have parallels on this album. The tracks Drifting in Twilight and Assuming the Seaform, which share a motif, are concerned, respectively, with delaying change and accepting change. Drifting in Twilight is a mostly comfortable track, but it resolves on a fairly anxious note, and it is meant to acknowledge that I will never find peace without embracing real change. Assuming the Seaform is sort of a metaphor for undergoing the ultimate change, into someone I didn't think I could ever be. It's chaotic and heavy at first, but ultimately it resolves on a much more confident and certain note.
The tracks also, in my head, tell a literal story about a person who has been cursed by some catastrophe to lose themselves and transform into some form incompatible with their current being. In this case, an octopus. Maybe that is a bit silly, but I have always been fascinated and terrified of the idea of losing my humanity in such a way. I wanted to create something that tried to explore the emotions and mental space of a person who knew they were losing themselves. It's a bit amorphous, and ultimately up to interpretation, but it was an arc that I used to inform the way the music evolves over the course of the album.
anyways. Blah blah blah. :D
I hope the album is enjoyable, and maybe the music can be interpreted in some other way for you! thank you for listening.