This Is My Body, This Is My Blood by Samuel Goff

Where adults, the community, the economy, and the environment fail to comfort a child, God enters to fill all the voids, piling up resentment against this almighty figure. The new album This Is My Body, This Is My Blood by Samuel Goff aligns structurally with the most obsessive-compulsive forms of ritual prayer, cycling between laments, meditations, and repeated affirmations. However, this prayer finds a target in everything but God, celebrating vessels of faith, desire, and energy that run counter to Christian teachings and deepen guilt complexes in those already struggling with religious trauma. Harsh industrial beats amplify sinful chants, followed by deadpan storytelling segments that adorn a room constructed of dissonant guitars and electronics, all pointing to an intense desire to violate any traditions of the religion that comprises the speaker’s childhood scar tissue. In the face of an upbringing of mistrust and stagnant misfortune, all desire points to the nearest exit, whether this exit comes at the expense of the mind, the body, the future, or the soul.