Back to Shilmarine by HAAL

Unaddressed, intense emotions hit a bottleneck and spew out in the shape of Back to Shilmarine by HAAL, a gritty post rock album that revels in the tension of misunderstood and awkward feelings. Dull grooves and suspended chords mark our ascent to the peak of frustration, while spoken vocals lay out the loose narrative of an increasingly bitter protagonist. After years of callous repression, sensation trickles into the numb heart of the speaker, leading them to sentimentalize moments without finding them particularly meaningful, to experience the touch of the divine without holding any religious conviction. As the band explodes into fuzzy noise rock sections, our speaker buckles under the weight of these misunderstood feelings, lashing out at a world where seemingly no one shares their experiences. Raw passion devours the body and mind, finding every avenue of word and action to reach expression, elevating the host’s every move to pure art.