ARTIST: Dreamwell TITLE: Modern Grotesque LABEL: GENRE: Hardcore SOURCE: WEB BITRATE: 320 kbps avg PLAYTIME: 38:42 RELEASE DATE: 2021-00-00 RIP DATE: 2021-02-26 ENCODER: LAME URL: https://dreamwell.bandcamp.com/album/modern-grotesque Track List ---------- 1. What Does It Mean to Live in a 1:25 Grotesquerie? 2. Painting Myself a Darker Day 3:38 3. Sayaka 4:21 4. A Crouching Tiger Waits for 4:10 Prey That Never Comes 5. Plague Father; Vermin Son 5:14 6. You Dreamt of Me. I Dreamt of a 3:15 Mountain of Salt 7. The Vessel Bears My Face 1:26 8. The Lost Ballad of Dominic 4:23 Anneghi 9. Modern Grotesque 6:33 10. Sisyphean Happiness 4:17 Release Notes: t was about a decade ago that a lot of us were logging onto Tumblr to share our affection for La Dispute by posting contextless lyrics attached to moody photography. ItÆs easy to look back in embarrassment at this kind of thing, but when the band dropped Panorama a few years ago many of us remembered just how good that band is when you strip them from the context of a website that ruined many of our lives in one way or another. That particular derailed, bardic, and overwhelmingly cathartic vein of post-hardcore seems to have seen a revival in recent yearsùprobably a TikTok thing, itÆs usually a TikTok thingùwith Rhode IslandÆs Dreamwell fitting neatly in the category. Swapping rabid vocals for Jordan DreyerÆs panic-attack intonations, their new LP Modern Grotesque dredges up some dark moments while maintaining that underlying sense of post-rock dreaminess. ôLyrically, we wanted to explore how pain and sorrow can oftentimes precede a moment of great and profound change in oneÆs life,ö the band shares. ôIn a lot of ways, this reflects the process of creating the record, too. This album has been surrounded by a couple of years of misfortune and setbacks, both as a band and in our personal lives. Finally releasing it means that we are officially on the other side, having grown and evolved as a band as a result, and we finally have an album weÆre extremely proud of after all this hard work.ö