
For that reason, this song is very precious to me." I suppose some feelings require you to write a pop song in order to fully understand them. I had a lot of turmoil and complicated emotions that I couldn’t process in any other way. "It was an exercise in using music as a tool for the sake of my own inner catharsis. "I wrote ‘The Fall’ for myself," she said. Today's Song of the Day taps into that power. I do feel like we are living in an arkhonic time these negative influences are weighing extremely heavy on all of us. "They taint and tarnish humanity, keeping them corrupted instead of letting them find their harmonious selves. "Arkons are a Gnostic idea of power wielded through a flawed god," Danilova elaborated via a press release.

The artist, whose real name is Nika Roza Danilova, explains that the title translates to "power" or "ruler" in ancient Greek. Zola Jesus returns with her sixth full-length later this month titled Arkhon. Zola Jesus - The Fall - from the 2022 album Arkhon on Sacred Bones. That’s the story and the process – and I want to live that way,” he adds. “They had to look up and respond to each other, and that’s what we've recorded.”ĭePlume then took the recordings, slicing them together seamlessly. “They didn’t have enough preparation to be able to hide behind this piece of material or skill,” he said via his Bandcamp. Two rules were in place: one, that musicians wouldn’t be given enough time to rehearse, and two, that they wouldn’t listen back to the music they recorded. During the 2020 recording sessions, DePlume invited a different set of musicians each day to record the same songs at the same speed. The London-based poet/songwriter (real name: Gus Fairbairn) has just released his cheekily-titled sophomore album, Gold, a 2xLP collection, captured chaotically. Quirkiness is in the cards with a nom de plume like Alabaster DePlume.

Alabaster DePlume - I'm Good at Not Crying - from the 2022 album GOLD on International Anthem.
