Altered Vessels Studio

What are you doing for Arcadia Day? This what I’m doing:

I couldn’t sleep last night again (not because of ST, just an insomnia bout I’m having) so was up at 1:25am and checked my Spotify to see if it had released, it had 💘. I didn’t want to start listening to it then as I was half asleep and I have a whole day planned today and wanted to give it my full attention so I doomscrolled facey reels until falling back to sleep til about 5.

Got up and made my special coffee and gave myself an Arcadian pink manicure 🙂 (and y’know “Lipstick, chemtrails, red flags, pink nails”). And then had to promptly redo 4 nails because I get impatient and do stuff and then smoodge a nail. For some reason I didn’t want to start listening until I felt ready. And that seems to be now at 9am. Lol 9am on the 9th. Also because my headphones were charging and there was no way that I was going to listen to this on speakers.

As you should know by now, headphones Sleep Token is waaaay different to speakers Sleep Token. Heed my word. anyway I’m going to listen until my headphone battery dies then switch to speaker if it doesn’t go all day (or my ears get sore).

Holy fark – note to self, do not eat anything when listening to Sleep Token’s new album for the first time. Almost choked myself. Gesthsemane just killed me. And here I thought Take Aim could embody what this song means to me past relationshipwise. fuuuuark. I was in love with the thought that we were in love with each other.

I can see that EIA is going to help me heal a very specific past relationship that I thought I’d healed but between Emergence and Take Aim (yes I know it’s not on EIA) it’s raised some very painful hidden lurking thoughts. It’s obviously time to deal with this stuff somehow. I can see that it’s going to be a long day of crying and writing for me in between sculpting and some other ST craft want to do today. My eyes are going to be puffy bags by the end of the day

But general reaction so far – love them all. Only song that is at the bottom of the list is Damocles as I probably haven’t listened to it enough since it came out but I was just a bit meh about it on the heels of Caramel and felt like two songs in a row from the man behind the mask. It odd because it feels really contradictory in that the music feels uplifting and “boppy” but the lyrical content is so deep and intense it’s almost hard to reconcile the two. It’s still not a skip so I’m enjoying the new release a lot.

Edited later in the day: The Even in Arcadia song sounds like a proposal of marriage -” have you been waiting long for me?” (all my life) where Provider feels like a wedding march and bridal waltz. And that’s without looking at the lyrics in deep yet just first pass impression as my Spotify doesn’t have the lyrics yet but it usually takes a day or so anyway.

Edited even later in the day: I think they did themselves a disservice by not release the Even in Arcadia song in the first set of releases. It is SO fkn good. It’s interesting to hear them in the order they were intended as I don’t tend to listen that way as I usually shuffle a custom playlist that has the songs that make me cry taken out so I don’t have to skip them. Also interesting to hear Emergence, Caramel and Damocles in the order with the new songs.

Edited a whole bunch later in the day: Another funny connection with the new release – I have a post prepped for this but I received something in the mail yesterday so I’ll give you a sneak peek considering the connection to Look to Windward “will you halt this eclipse in me?”

With those eyes and hood, how could it not be Vessel? Post coming soon 😁

It’s been a long and emotional day, I hope you’re all ok and loving it as much as I do. Another superb creation that will be on repeat for me for a couple of days before I add them to to the mix of my playlist.

Worship 🖤