Describing the tracks of 'in every crease'
https://absentine.bandcamp.com/album/in-every-crease In the long term, I've been very insecure about the potential power imbalances of writing songs about the choices of people I know, about personal experiences including others' actions. The writer assumes a pulpit, where we encourage conflation of musical virtue with being correct, and there's no right of reply. It's also petty. The specifics of one relationship aren't of much creative use outside of their properties applicable to other relationships. Here's a project in which I can no longer claim distance from that role. I think I'm justified: my life was significantly upended by a long-term-absent friend who suddenly surfaced and insisted on being my partner, which I resisted reasonably then fell for when they constructed enough deceit to lead me thus. They were very mentally unwell and manipulative and harmful, and now they're dead and it's got nothing to do with me, I swear. It's also not ...