“All Towers Drawn In The Equatorial Room” has been given the nod to serve as the final advance single from Dreamwell‘s approaching sophomore album, “In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You“. Prosthetic Records have lined up an October 20th release for that outing.
This last early listen from it features a guest spot from Nick Holland of Wounded Touch. Dreamwell vocalist KZ Staska commented:
“This is one of the bleakest songs I think I’ve ever written. I wrote an early version of these lyrics stream of consciousness style at the onset of a severe depressive episode. I remember writing until I felt done, walking away, and coming back to read what I wrote. I remember feeling really uncomfortable when I read the line ‘I would bash my skull against a brick wall if you told me happiness might leak out.’
I hated that a line like that came out of me organically, without thought. I knew that discomfort was important. I had to rewrite a lot of it to give it structure and make it make sense once music was written, but I made sure to keep that line exactly as I wrote it.
This song uses the tarot and astrology imagery most heavily. It’s about being so desperate for a single shred of hope that I turn to things I don’t even believe in to try to find it. I tried to capture that same horrible depressive energy I felt when I wrote the song in the music video, but incorporate more of the ritualistic occult imagery from the narrative into it as well.”
10/21 Providence, RI – Dusk (feat. Usurp)
11/02 Montreal, QC – Turbo Haus (feat. Lowheaven)
11/03 Toronto, ON – Bar Orwell (feat. Lowheaven)
11/04 Detroit, MI – Pleasant Underground (feat. Bleached Cross)
11/05 Chicago, IL – Downstairs Subt (feat. Bleached Cross)
11/07 Fargo, ND – Aquarium (feat. Blind Equation)
11/08 Minneapolis, MN – Seward Café (feat. Blind Equation)
11/10 Indianapolis, IN – Black Circle (feat. Blind Equation)
11/11 Pittsburgh, PA – Roboto Project (feat. Blind Equation)
11/12 Brooklyn, NY – TV Eye (feat. Gospel)
12/01 Philadelphia, PA – Rittenhouse Filmworks (feat. Foxtails, In Loving Memory, Your Arms Are My Cocoon)
12/17 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar (feat. From Autumn To Ashes & Kaonashi)
12/18 Bensalem, PA – Broken Goblet Brewing (feat. From Autumn To Ashes & Kaonashi)
12/19 Cambridge, MA – Sonia (feat. From Autumn To Ashes & Sunflo’er)
