Meth.- ShameLabel: Prosthetic Released 2024 The album title hangs heavy throughout the duration of the songs themselves, a weight around the neck of it's creators. Inspired by a tumultuous time for vocalist Seb Alvarez, the album is an uncomfortable listen as he grapples with then undiagnosed bi polar and unchecked addiction issues. Whilst the themes of shame, deception and trauma are not new to meth., they have previously been dressed up with a fictional veneer.

All Hell Breaks Loose

The choice to present this extract from Flowers Of Evil in it's intended French language further distances Ciani's faithful reaction from some of it's better-known variations

as if sadness and depression were inevitable consequences of being alive

The Fever (First Version) *

Pure/Honey

David Bowie- Moonage Daydream

On "Kill 'Em All

Take the Box

Jenn Wasner (also of Flock of Dimes & Bon Iver's band) and Andy Stack (of Joyero & Lambchop fame) take their minimalist setup to maximalist ends

The demos were written at John’s home studio in Macclesfield and then recorded with legendary producer

I walked into a pre-existing situation

The songs here are as sincere as they are surreal