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Donewiz

by Grieving Sea

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Unwillingly enwreathed with greed Unwittingly inhaling life’s last breath They breathe Death in, death out Death in, death out The souls I mourn aren’t those of my kin Unabjured sons of Saturn, apex detritivores Useless minds chained at the top of the food chain They bring Death in, death out The souls I mourn aren’t those of men Death in, death out A requiem for those whose lives are caged Death in, death out The souls I mourn aren’t those of men
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A vacuum 05:02
4.
So pure 03:30
The first time I saw you seems nearer in time than the last, an ellipse in space placing the past in front of my eyes now old, and We said goodbye so so many times before We said we grew up together And although together we grew ourselves apart, we are still one. Your sixteen-year old tear-salted lips arched in a smile as you taught me The first radiant paradox of life And without a farewell we both went to sea We said goodbye so so many times before somewhere in time between past and future days of loveless pain We are still pure And then at times i know we are smelling the same scent or watching the same flickering light or Just carrying the same weight or Thinking of a lighter you called your first, or a post-punk mixtape and purple ink on a tightly folded sheet that goes like this: “whenever I am alone with you”
5.
Nostalgic for a future I’ll never have, I wonder If the melancholia now paving the roads of the past Has ever borne resemblance To hope And in the end Elongated shadows breathe down our neck When we walk against the sun And in the end Upwind and upstream don’t mean just opposition But are reveries of ambition Grieving over deaths I have never had, I wonder If my scars will ever heal, now I ponder Whether our traumatic past has always borne resemblance To hate And in the end Elongated shadows breathe down our neck When we walk towards our pain And in the end Upwind and upstream don’t mean just opposition But are reveries of contrition
6.
Chiming hours crowns us reprobate Anoints us in predicament Predestined to displacement Incapable of love and hate Ejected from a darkened gorge Expelled from our own species’ jaws Our fate is compromised because It’s our past we can’t reforge I shall execrate all the dead I’d give them back their lives again And death! For they could have stopped this pain But they didn't care instead The sea devours We are on a raft and forgetful of our lore The sea devours Adrift and apart we are more and more The sea devours Some of us only shells left on the shore The sea devours Sad ghosts from the vestiges of our past The sea devours A sunken tower to give us prescience of how this ain’t gonna last. Ejected from a darkened gorge Expelled from my own species’ jaws My fate is compromised because It’s our past we can’t reforge I shall execrate all the dead I’d give them back their lives again And death! For they could have stopped this pain But they didn't care instead The sea devours We are on a raft and forgetful of our lore The sea devours Adrift and apart we are more and more The sea devours Some of us only shells left on the shore The sea devours Sad ghosts from the vestiges of our past The sea devours A sunken tower to give us prescience of how this ain’t gonna last. The sea devours…
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Best dresses worn for no one to see Like silent notes and a thunderous silence A memorized recital and a formulaic plea That goes from guilt and shame to defiance And back - is mine Why it’s always only me and not them to crack Undivined Why it’s always only them and not me to be Unashamed Why it’s always only us and not them to feel Death inside Dead inside Bloatedness catwalks for everyone to see As if wealth or lack thereof was the only divider Ostentatious of their illiteracy Unable, unlike us, not to relate to either Love, or hate Why it’s always only me and not them to crack Undivined Why it’s always only them and not me to be Unashamed Why it’s always only us and not them to feel Death inside Dead inside My soul is in Dunwich already waiting for you all to drown The bells of my church - ancient and profane Will ring underwater to celebrate your Extinction at dawn

about

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"a slice of gorgeous Bauhaus-ian led melancholia…" (The Sleeping Shaman)

"it's just so good. The songs, the lo-fi delivery, the intent. It's all there, and it feels, I don't know, real. Flawed, human, and real" (Machine Music)

"a sense of dread so strong that it’s almost palpable" (Backseat Mafia)

"harrowing and beautiful" (Foxy Digitalis)

"They’ve captured the steady, addictive beats and melodies of classic post punk and amplified the dissonance to keep the listener on their toes" (Cvlt Nation)

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“Donewiz” is the debut album by Post-Punk / Darkwave duo GRIEVING SEA.

The project marks the first musical collaboration between Void (Feed Them Death, Pseudodoxia) and Giorgio Barroccu (Derhead), both co-owners of Brucia Records, and it represents a further step in the label’s new direction of pursuing uncanny, unsettling and unusual sounds away from the boundaries of extreme metal.

Grieving Sea created a purposely unpolished and low-fi blending of disparate genres such as Post-Punk, Noise Rock and Darkwave, with the aim of conveying a profound sense of calamity.

“Donewiz” was the medieval name of Dunwich: once a busy port situated along the Suffolk coast, now a ghost town that has gradually disappeared under the sea since the year 1286 due to numerous storms and coastal erosion.
Evoking the lament of all the lives being washed away and the bells of the churches now tolling from beneath the sea, the clean and simple guitar work is entwined and enriched with subtly noisier frequencies and accompanied throughout the album by mournful piano chords and other ominous layers of sound.
Similarly to the music, the vocals also seem to evoke a cry for something that we have all lost, mimicking the sad and poignant litany of the sea eroding the coast, swallowing our lives under its waves.

The album also features a few special collaborations: Sarah Townley from american Heavy Psych / Drone Ambient band The Sun and The Mirror created a magnificently nuanced cello performance on “In The End”, whilst danish avant garde musician and multi-instrumentalist artist Trine Paaschburg (Mouth Wound) collaborated on vocals duetting with Grieving Sea’s vocalist Void in “So Pure”.

Shadowy and dark post-punk, FFO: Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Siouxsie & The Banshees

credits

released July 8, 2022

CREDITS

Giorgio Barroccu - Instruments
Void - Vocals

Music by Grieving Sea
Lyrics by Void
Second voice and extra noise in track 4: Trine Paaschburg (Mouth Wound: mouthwound.bandcamp.com/music)
Cello in track 5: Sarah Townley (The Sun and The Mirror: thesunandthemirror.bandcamp.com)
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Giorgio Barroccu for Evokaos (Brucia Records)
Artwork and artistic direction by Evokaos (Brucia Records)

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