Artist
Seafarers
Across their previous two albums, Seafarers have been charting a life through
childhood to adolescence. Another State throws us into the chaos of early
adulthood. The album opens with a sigh of relief:
You told me ‘hey kid, don’t sweat it, I’ve been wetting the bedsheets all my
life’
These ten songs serve as story-like vignettes, detailing people in transit. We
follow characters as they leave home, lose themselves in new cities, bad
relationships, moral rabbit-holes, wandering university campuses in search of
something to cling on to. Each one stuck somewhere between a strange
sense of liberation and abandonment.
“Televangelists” offers an existential take on religion and technology, “Melissa” is
a childhood friend who got lost along the way, and “Everything I’d Do (to Get
a Hold on You)” throws us into the magnetic forcefield of a destructive
relationship. Love, money, sex, and faith – whatever offers comfort as you
stare down the barrel of the rest of your life.
But, despite all the uncertainty, there is a window of light. Album opener
Bedwetters takes solace in life’s simple beauty despite our tireless anxieties,
and we close with the intimate A Little Loss, finally coming to terms with
certain mysteries forever remaining hidden:
At times it’s overwhelming,
but I’m trying to be polite