I Cut People | Denial Reminders

Album Year: 2018

What is to be expected of us as we age and slowly fall into a state of personal defeat, conforming to whatever is the easiest way out, avoiding any confrontation along the way? What used to be motivation will no doubt take the form of regret as the blurry face of the End draws near. Avoiding suffering leads to a faulty memory.

Denial Reminders is a personal account that attempts to bring to light the phantoms that our society refuses to unveil and overcome such as death, separateness, and self-evaluation. Many life-altering experiences, even seemingly insignificant, succumb due to avoiding these inescapable fears. This avoidance brings about a lack in authenticity and a failure to truly know oneself and others. Denial then solidifies, becoming a part of the normal state of being while the self collapses.

Similar to the previous 3 albums, Denial Reminders is comprised of a multitude of polemics against our heavily medicated, alienated, overworked, and stress-ridden society. I point fingers and vent throughout, but I come up empty handed more often than not.

Denial Reminders may be my most honest album yet. It contains some repetition in sarcasm and parody, but beyond that, it accomplishes placidity; an end worth leaving.

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.”
– Ernest Becker The Denial of Death

“To philosophize is to learn to die.”– Michel de Montaigne

“I belong to those machines that can explode”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“…it is the essence of life, insofar as it keeps itself, insofar as, at the same time, it protects and keeps itself in memory in its truth; and it can, of course, in sacrifice and death, lose itself in order to keep itself. Life knows how to make itself suffer in order to keep itself, and to keep itself from forgetting, to keep itself in memory. For all of this is, of course, an interpretation of sacrificiality.”
– Jacques Derrida The Death Penalty Vol. 1

 

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Album Art

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Track Listing

1. My Eternal Recurrence
2. No Matter What Happens
3. Smile, You’re on Antidepressants
4. Freedom Prison
5. I Got Issues
6. Self Destroyed
7. Relaxing…Sort of
8. Forget Me Not
9. I’m Trying to Tell You Something
10. You Really Shouldn’t Be Here
11. Life Not Living Up to the Hype?
12. Prescription Suicide
13. Keep Smiling, You’re Still on Antidepressants
14. No More Love
15. ADD Me
16. The Moment You Realize
17. Back to Taking
18. What I Saw
19. Life Sick and Not Alone

Samples:
All samples stolen from television news programs, commercials, pharmaceutical ads, talk shows, dramas, christian programs, reality tv.