‘I’ve contemplated joining you sometimes when I get low’.
Patience, they say is a virtue, I kind of agree and disagree with that, as patience combined with hope can be the most evil feeling a person can bear. It is a cross too heavy, a scar too aggressive and a scab that you willingly tear off and let the wound bleed out.
My dear colleague, Zoe Marchment was a huge fan of Bury Tomorrow, she sadly lost her battle against pancreatic cancer, and I feel desperately sad that she is not here to cheer them on. I will do my best to honour her feelings and her memory.
Lead single ‘Villain Arc’ allows your shadow self to come forward, any repressed, unacknowledged and undesirable notions are addressed. We all possess these ideas; it is a helpful tactic to face them and recognise the different disguises we wear to get through life.
With two new band members, there is a settling down of sorts after the punishing demands of touring they have undertaken recently.
‘I’m being buried alive by the weight of my mind’
Bury Tomorrow are Dan Winter-Bates- vocals, Tom Prendergast – vocals/electronics/programming, Kristan Dawson – guitar, Ed Hartwell – guitar, Davyd Winter-Bates – bass and Adam Jackson on drums, who create a musical landscape that reflects our inner most thoughts and shows us what we are really made of. There are sides to our nature that we keep hidden, they are guaranteed to surface at some point. How we present ourselves when our dark side emerges, and can we be honest enough to face the challenges it brings. The videos are extremely pensive, the visuals for ‘What If I Burn’ exude an allure amongst the darkness, we are enchanted, fixated and yet we fear what will happen next. We feel the agony; we feel the intensity and the shockwaves permeate us, allowing for a discourse that would otherwise probably be difficult to shoulder.
Underneath all the fire and angst, we accept that we have a duty to make the world a better and safer place for everyone, we have come this far, but there is still a long way to go.
Bury Tomorrow have availed a lot of reasoning and introspection to producing this record, the idea being that we should start with our own condition first, before we can fully support others.
The album title can be found in ‘Silence Isn’t Helping Us’ a tale of cleansing, purging at a time when the world is spinning at great speed. With our lives played out online, there is so much at stake, and it will take discipline and determination to manage the complexities therein.
Our social construct is established, there is right and wrong, there is duty and dereliction, within the parameters there is engagement and culpability. All these responsibilities are nuanced, dependant on the circumstances we face. An accurate portrayal of this can be found in ‘Let Go’ where we learn about toxicity and its impact on our minds. It is detrimental to our health and consequently it stops us from thinking clearly and making decisions that are favourable.
Honest, brave, ethical, sincere and informative are all attributes that contribute to giving a voice to those who are unable or perhaps unwilling to speak. This album is a mouthpiece; it identifies our intricacies and enables us to relate and secure a method to stabilise and maintain composure and make sense of it all.
‘Rest in peace and pray we’ll never feel a thing’.
A haunting patience oversees our existence, we are torn, forlorn, now is the time to mourn, for in death I will reform.
Azra Pathan
Bury Tomorrow – Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience out now.
For Zoe