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about
Gloom is an important minute and a half for us. It may be short and sweet but it holds a lot of thematic representation regarding the next era for the band. Happiness was the name of the first album. We wrote that in 2019/20, we recorded it in 2021 and we released it in 2022. It was the first thing we ever released with label support. Even though the album title is kind of a play on words we were definitely just so excited to be doing what we were doing at that time. It felt like a fitting title for the record. 4 years on since we put pen to paper on that first record we have had to mature and adapt to lives that we were perhaps naive about back then. The reality of working in the music industry, the strains on our mental health, the balancing of our personal lives, the loss of relationships and the passing of family members, the anxiety of the rug being pulled out from beneath us and even maintaining our love for each other and the band itself. Those are the themes that are woven into all the new music we have written. We are angrier, and we are changed but we are more ambitious than we have ever been. We have come through some really tough times to get here and Gloom seems like a fitting mirror to Happiness. Happiness was the shortest song on our first record, Gloom is shorter still and in that minute and a half we have tried to sum up the perfect gateway into what comes next for Beauty School. - Joe Cabrera (vocals)
lyrics
(Wake up and smell the flowers in bloom)
When you worry for me
It’s not maternal guilt
Projected inner self
You vocalise my health
Try pry a bias from me
And not that subtly
You touch my creaky knees
You tape your tongue to your teeth
And you swore on the day that he died
That you’d try a little harder next time
To be fair, to quiet your mind
To give grace a little peace sometimes
With a face like his coffin, you’re covered in gloom
I’m up on my feet again, to repeat after you
You plead it’s not worth it, smile and nod along
Lets leave it til after, Save it for your swansong
Save it for your swansong
Wake up and smell the flowers in bloom
One day we all suffer the same gloom.
credits
released May 1, 2024
Lyrics by: Dan Shaw, Joe Cabrera
Music by: Dan Shaw, Grant Beeden Clayton, Joe Cabrera, Charlie Thomas, Jordan Hill, Jason Blackburn
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