Flesh and Bones Become Nothing in the Light by Dad’s Apartment

If you lead a double life in the digital world, you’ve taken a taste of the afterlife that can intoxicate us with an intense desire to abandon our bodies. This desire leaps from the tape on Dad’s Apartment’s new record Flesh and Bones Become Nothing in the Light, a truly standout experimental rock record that brings the death drive to life in ways that deeply disturb us, filling us with discomfort every time we feel ourselves empathizing with this self-destruction. Expertly timed dynamic swells and temporal tightening lead us on this journey with the speaker, feeling their terror as they stare down the charging bull of carnal desire, sharing in their sorrow at the injustice of nature. Poetry that oscillates between dramatic, symbolic imagery and point-blank ranting maps out the path of this maddening circular dance, slowly drawing us closer to the point at which the body represents all things evil. Disturbed by the blood and flesh of the world and uncomforted by God, the speaker leaves us with a bleak acknowledgement of the continuing of this repetitive hell, leaving us no recourse but to join in their screams of agony.