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Aric Garcia from Hail The Sun on the Divine Inner Tension tour (2023) - Photo: Rosario Gutierrez

Currently Listening To: "I Saw You Hanging" by Hail The Sun

New Hail The Sun album fucking rips by the way

Every music fan knows the struggle of having too music to listen to in any given year; there are almost always a handful of albums that come out each week, and it can be hard to keep up. Aside from that, there is also a lot of music released that doesn’t warrant much of a reaction. Not that the music itself is bad, but a lot of albums are uneventful in the sense that they don’t need a lot to be said about them. Sometimes all you can say is that an album is good or bad, but the problem with being a music critic, writer, or whatever you want to call yourself is that if you need to write something or make a video about an album, you can’t just say that and call it a day. When I wrote reviews more full-time, versus sporadically like I do now, I wrote pieces on everything I was listening to, regardless of what I thought and how much I had to say, but that is one major reason why I got burnout from writing. I could only say so many times that I didn’t have much to say about something, but I’ve circumvented that by every now and again putting out a review that’s more or less a much of blurbs about albums that I don’t have much to say about, but I still want to talk about. My last review was kind of like that, where I talked about a few albums that were very similar, but still different. Today I wanted to do something like that, only instead of dedicating a paragraph to an album, I wanted to write a few sentences about a handful of albums that came out recently within the last few weeks. I call this “Speed Round Reviews,” and I may do this once a month or every other month when I listen to enough albums that I don’t feel the need to dedicate an entire review to. These albums are not connected in any way, shape, or form, and they’re all albums I’ve listened to that have come out recently.

The Band Camino - The Dark

If you’re an alt-rock fan, you already know who this band is, because they’ve been around for years, but The Band Camino is seemingly trying to go for broke with The Dark, their first album in two years and post-pandemic. This record is a lean half hour slice of pop-rock / alt-rock with some slick hooks, solid guitarwork, and nice vocals, but the lyrics leave a lot to be desired and is the main reason why I haven’t listened to this album as much as I would like. They range from decent to really bad, and I’m not usually a stickler for lyrics, unless they’re that bad, and some of the lyrics on this are sort of painful, but at least the album is nice to listen to, so if you “turn your brain off,” you may get something out of this.

Caskets - Reflections

British metalcore band Caskets are geared up to be the next big thing in their scene, especially with newly released sophomore album, Reflections. I’m late to this band, but I really enjoy metalcore bands that incorporate pop, hard-rock, electronica, R&B, nu-metal, and other various kinds of rock and metal into their arsenal, such as Issues (RIP), Wage War, Archetypes Collide, and I Prevail, but Caskets is a band that’s poised to cross over. Their vocalist has a great voice that can really pull off pop and R&B sounds, but can also pull off metalcore and hard-rock sounds. Their debut album featured more passages that had straightforward pop and R&B elements, whereas Reflections dials that down a bit, only to focus more on the metalcore, hard-rock, and pop/electronic sounds, but this record is a short burst of catchy, melodic, and well-written crossover hard-rock and metalcore that is sure to win over fans of these types of bands. Reflections won’t blow your mind, necessarily, but it does a fine job with what it’s trying to do.

Hail The Sun - Divine Inner Tension

I’ve gotten very jaded, tired, and bored of the post-hardcore sub-genre known as “Swancore” over the last decade or so, which was named for the specific style that Dance Gavin Dance guitarist Will Swan utilizes, as a lot of these bands that have popped up in that time all sound the same. I thought the band Hail The Sun was part of that wave, as they got big around 2014, and I was never a fan of them. With a lot of these bands breaking up, and/or falling into obscurity, their new album, Divine Inner Tension, is very surprising and refreshing. It reminds me a lot of bands from the mid-00s with very frantic, energetic, and fun guitarwork with some catchy hooks and solid vocals, akin to The Fall Of Troy, and this is the kind of progressive post-hardcore that I used to enjoy way back in the day. It’s not revolutionary, but the guitarwork is wild, the vocals are surprisingly really good (he reminds me a LOT of Circa Survive and Saosin vocalist Anthony Green), and they throw in a few breakdowns and harsh vocals for good measure that hit harder because they don’t show up often.

Starletta - Neon Cowboy

The Internet is a beautiful place, because I found Nashville synthwave artist Starletta with his debut album, Neon Cowboy, through Tik Tok. This is a catchy, slick, fun, and still sad pop and synthwave album that takes a lot of notes from the 1980s. If you love 80s pop, you’ll love this album. His voice is fantastic, and the lyrics are pretty sad and “emo,” but you’ll be singing along to a lot of these in no time. I look at this album as being a story of a person getting over a breakup, only to find happiness with somebody new at the end. The album even has a bit of a country feel on a few songs, which makes sense considering the title, and it oddly works. Also, alt-rock band Glimmers makes an appearance on the closing track that feels more joyous and happy, and it’s a damn good feature. They could make a pop album or EP and it would sound great. If you enjoy pop, alt-rock, or bands with an 80s aesthetic or influence, you’ll probably really like this.

Bearings - The Best Part About Being Human

Canadian pop-punk band Bearings is back with their third long-player, The Best Part Of Being Human, and this might be their best album. This is more or less a condensed version of what they’ve been doing, at least a combination of their first two albums. They started off as more straightforward pop-punk and turned more into a pop-rock / alt-rock band, whereas this album is a good mix of the two. It’s only 29 minutes, and the album has a nice summery feel to it, so listen to it while the summer is still left. The lyrics are a little corny, and syrupy sweet at times, but that’s how this band has always been, only they upped the ante this time. It has some good hooks, and their vocalist is the best he’s ever sounded, as his nasally sound in his voice from the last couple albums has almost been smoothed out, but this was a pleasant album from front to back (not to mention, there’s a great little sax solo on the album that really surprised me).

Movements - Ruckus!

Movements is a band that I’ve always been mixed on; I loved their debut EP from 2016, but I haven’t cared for anything else they’ve done. They went from a post-hardcore band to pop-punk and then to shoegaze / indie, and their last LP was a very slow and monotonous album that I couldn’t sit still while listening to. It was very boring, despite not being bad. With their third album, though, they switched up their sound again and the title of it, Ruckus, is oddly fitting, being that this album ups the volume and energy of their last album. This thing is still rooted in post-hardcore, but there’s an alt-rock influence that rears its head throughout it. The songs are catchier, more fun, and less sad. Their lyrics have always been focused on mental health, which is great, but their vocalist has revealed that he is in a very good headspace and didn’t want to keep writing about that, especially since it would come off as fake and disingenuous, but the album is more positive and more fun this time around. Nothing that blows my mind, or really sticks around for me minus more than a handful of listens, but still really good stuff.

Hail the Sun - Divine Inner Tension

Hail The Sun - 2023 - Photo: Rosario Gutierrez

Album Review: Hail The Sun - Divine Inner Tension (Rude / EVR)

Genius or madness? You decide. It’s well worth finding out though.

Divine Inner Tension is the sixth album from Californian math rock/progressive quartet Hail the Sun. Following their lauded 2021 album New Age Filth, this new album will be released on August 11th, 2023 via Rude / EVR. The line between genius and madness gets every more transparent when you get band’s like Hail the Sun. How else can you explain something like Divine Inner Tension? Something that…

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Currently Listening To: "(In My Dream)" by Hail The Sun

i know this is a terrible financial decision BUT. one day i will have every hail the sun vinyl. peace and love

Tension Release Meditation.. allow the ease and flow through a positive new perspective to present itself in fruition and surrender through it.

what do u dislike plato

deeply uninterested in any position promising access to a higher, hidden, divine realm of truth ontologically in tension with the material existence of things and their relations to one another. it's a position that appeals to supra-natural handwaving in order to resolve a perceived disjunction between perception and reality without making any effort to historicise or problematise such a disjunction, say perhaps in relation to estranged labour. kant also does this but at least he has the decency to pretend it's constitutive of human psychology and not a regulatory principle of reality in itself. i also think the ethical positions plato expresses through socrates's mouth are laughably optimistic about the existence of a pure and unconditioned truth, the human ability to perceive such a thing, and the immediate rational acceptance of it, which leads most obviously to the deeply annoying socratic solution to "why do people act against their own interests" being "they are deceived, and i don't need to prove that or engage with expressed desires that are contradictory or self-destructive, because i can simply assume these people are deceived, because if they were not then they would do the transcendentally correct thing and be happy and experience no inner conflict". politically reactionary in the way all philosophical idealism is, and more than incidentally psychiatry minded, in the sense of the etymology ψυχή ιατρεία, 'soul healing' (cf nietzsche: socrates as the "mystagogue of science", who lived and died 'scientifically', namely, delivered from the fear of death by conviction in the mission to make existence appear comprehensible and therefore justifiable).

sucks hate him think the world needs more insane unruly people unashamed to exist bodily and uninterested in extolling the virtue of self-restraint. "socially contextualise that thang" --karl marx 1844

Please pleasee do felix x pregnant reader smut, ily ur writing ur so talented 💌

Thank u my loveee! Here you go xoxo

AN: smutttt, eating u out, sex, breeding kink! Xoxox

Felix is ravenous for you.

Actually, ravenous is an understatement.

He’s so damn starved for your touch since you’ve become pregnant, his internal famine grows more and more as does the swelling of your bump.

He desires you more than ever, finding you as beautiful as all the goddess he ever studied in his Greek mythology class. Like the tragic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, Felix was so unearthly in love with you that he vowed to do anything for you, but even more so now as you were the one carrying his seed.

So alluring—yet sentimentally fascinating, for the man to watch your body and physique evolve in the most glowing way possible.

Felix just wouldn’t be able to contain himself in a manner that wasn’t touching you all over with his exceedingly needy hands. No restraints could keep him apart from you.

And when you were naked, it was like he was in heaven and you were his angel.

He adored seeing you so full and round with his seed, your once petite breasts now full and swollen. He’d gently cup them, stimulating a nerve inside of you that felt relaxing as your boobs were constantly sore. And when he felt like his hands could only provide so much for his lover, his tongue would ease its way to your hard nipples. He’d be delicate, not wanting to suck on them in a way that would hurt you. So as he’d swirl his desirous tongue round and round, you’d moan for him in agony to just fuck you already.

Making love was a strong suit of his, he was a master in the bedroom and could get you off in a hurry with a few powerful thrusts and some aggressive hair pulling. However, sex while being pregnant was different. It brought out a more sympathetic side to Felix, he was stimulated to no end, but didn’t let his rough, usual pace take over.

Slow and steady, he’d make you feel warm and losen all your tension by eating you out. Plunging his tongue in and out, by taking his sweet time in devouring your delectable cunt. Taking a few sweet moments to glance at your sweaty, pink cheeks before letting his hands roam freely around your protruding bump, his head retuning back to his favourite meal that was sprawled in front of him.

His throbbing cock had no seconds to spare, patiently waiting to enter the insides of your needy pussy, except Felix didn’t rush his stamina to slide it in. Cautiously taking his time, he lightly thrusted his solid cock into you, loving the slow feeling of letting his cock be surrounded in your inner walls that were already so wet for him.

He groaned seeing the image beneath him, your eyes squinting trying not to roll back with how pleasurable he was being, but most all, he loved seeing your bare bump on display for his eyes only. If you’re weren’t pregnant at the moment, there was no doubt in his horny little mind that would stop him from knocking you up this instant.

You were so gorgeous. Your heart was pure, filled with generosity and you had to have been the most selfless person he ever encountered—something so unfamiliar to him.

“Look at you, my little dove,” he proclaimed in between his erotic pants. “All full of my baby….oh so beautiful you are.”

His eyes were full of passioniate fire as his ears were overflowing with the beautiful sounds of your delicate whimpers and divine moans.

He’d get lower on you to the point where his toned abdomen would collide with your swollen stomach, skin to skin, he felt so connected to you.

“I wanna keep you like this,” he truthfully whispered, “keep cuming in you with my seed one after the other…”

A line of Catton heirs, now that was something worth talking about.

He loved everything about you being pregnant. He loved how you needed him, he loved your cute mood swings, he loved seeing your nurturing side blossom.

He was definitely getting you pregnant again.