chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger by awakebutstillinbed

Emo has always served as a conduit for the expression of some seriously dark thoughts given the genre’s original emphasis on dynamic volatility and freeform poetry. Further justifying the marriage of these sounds with these sentiments, chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger by awakebutstillinbed restores the emo spirit to its more compelling state back around the time that the heart of the genre moved from the scramz scene in San Diego to the twinkly world of Cap’n Jazz. Awakebutstillinbed’s potent lyrics feast from a buffet of cheery inspirations such as dissociation from the self, existential dread, alienation from close friends, loss of passion, and the most negative possible version of coming of age. Even reading the lyric sheet with no audio will draw you into the darkest places within yourself, so the addition of the band’s raw yet thoughtful sound that rises and falls with every contour of the poetry all but forces you face-to-face with an incredibly honest mental mirror. Having a voice to sit with you in moments like this means the world, and we know we will always have a companion in awakebutstillinbed. -Michael