JC
Si j’avais eu plus de temps, j’aurais chroniqué A Liminal Step en 2025 et il aurait certainement figuré dans mon top de l’année, car je ne m’en lasse pas.
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Favorite track: Prayer Wall.
1. |
Sigil
05:16
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Reach, a single calming strain
To soothe and ground again
Between, a million thoughts at play
In waves, it dulls the way
Appear, extending shapes of grey
The fear - it permeates
Breathe,
The worst: the wait, the freeing
Returning essence
Calms the senses
On days, the world unties, slips away
Relay, it won't define, its okay
Reach, pulling all the strings
To hold, the world in reigns
Tyrant, freezing
Breathe in, remain
Breathe
The worst, the wait, the freeing
Returning essence
Calms the senses
On days, the world unties, slips away
Relay, it won't define, its okay
Wake
Weightless
Face, a ravening
Fight, flight
Battle through the night
I gave mine
Fight, flight
Crawl out of the night
Oh you tried
I can say, I held mine
Steadfast, reason, draw a line
Draw a line
Would it leave me?
Pass me by?
Test of time
On days, the world unties, slips away
Relay, it won't define, it’s okay
Waiting for
The ravenous self-imposing, fear
Weightless
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2. |
Rope Me In
04:42
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Rope me in
A sly spun pretence
Gnawing eyes
Sympathize the near
Walk off the earth
And prophesize demise
Steer
Clear
Steer
Clear
Hope is on another hill
Specs built to instill that view
Staring through an hourglass
Rope me in
(With heels dug fast
A sentimental impasse
A dire thread)
Rope me in
Reel me in
A sight once relieving
An exercise
To compromise
The near
Walk off the earth
And prophesied demise
Steer
Clear
Hope is on another hill
Specs built to instill that view
Staring through an hourglass
Rope me in
With heels dug fast
A sentimental impasse
A dire thread
Rope me in
Feel
Feel that shift?
Feel that?, keep your
Feet on the ground
Feel that?, keep your
Feet on the ground
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3. |
Lantern
06:13
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First to last
Anchored in the now
Life instilled
Clarity throughout
Meaning
Healing
We, the frail
Counting sheep and time
Seeking still
Monuments aligned, with
Meaning
Healing
A trail
To lost, unsound ideals
So far removed, we fail
To shun the parallels
And make ourselves - try
Our senses
Are rendered
Wide eyed and faint
We scramble, to mend ourselves
Tears, a flood
Absolve, the weight
A sign, of i
Tears, a flood to learn
Absolve, the weight, a thousand times and over
(Try)
Our senses
Are rendered
Wide eyed and faint
We scramble, to mend ourselves
(My friend, I
Pour my heart
In lives
Not mine)
Endless
Essence
In search
Imprint
Process and discern
A trail
To lost, unsound ideals
So far removed, we fail
To shun the parallels
And make ourselves - try
First to last
Anchor in the now
Life instilled
Clarity throughout
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4. |
Realignment
02:36
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Pensive
Retry
Lost our
Eye to eye
Withhold
Misalign
We dreamt intertwined
Ten years down the line
What's yours, what is mine?
Exhaust
Retry
Our course
Aligned
Tell me, tell me
Tell me
Exhaust
Retry
Our course
Aligned
Tell me, tell me
Are you alright?
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5. |
Prayer Wall
06:04
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A pull from underneath
A reeling harmony
This open secret of your
Contingency
Long way home
Bite your tongue
The risk of falling out
A solitary bout
Is there something more?
Sorrow
Sorrow burns through
Sorrow
Sorrow burns through
The solemn words you live by
They suffocate the air - now,
The spite you build your walls by
Became a place of prayer
(Drive)
The risk of falling out
(Stay)
A solitary bout
(Pray)
Is there something more?
Sorrow
Sorrow burns through
Sorrow
Sorrow burns through
Sorrow
Sorrow burns through
Sorrow
Sorrow burns
The risk of falling out
A solitary bout
Is there something more?
Long way home
Bite your tongue
Is there something more?
Save your malice
And spite
Turn it into faith
Hide
The topple
Since
How could we turn a blind eye?
(We’re dreading
The distance
We’re praying
It topples
Your walls, they
Come crashing down)
The risk of falling out
Is there something more?
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6. |
The Grid
02:35
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Bleed in sync to please the frame
Into the grid
Give and give again
And decay
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7. |
Sunder
04:59
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Lie still, cower
A pendulum
World in view
Structures remain
Inept and defective
Weighing souls to shift conformity
Leave this stray
Broken old design
Chase that flare, or
Drown between the fault lines
Try still, bending through
The limits of the world we drew
Structures remain
Inept and defective
Keep your head high
Try before long
Minds drawn
Pull the resin
Carve out the words
Beneath the stone
Keep your head high
Try before long
Minds drawn
What’s said
In place of something else
What’s here
In search of better years
Reframe
With empathy it’s clear
In droves
With words the world we steer
Leave this stray
Broken old design
Chase that flare, or
Drown between the fault lines
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8. |
The Hedonist
06:48
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Chase
Anesthesia
Heart and soul
More
Further, further
We loathe
Feign
Living instance
Truth so cold
Together we parade,
Hearts in disarray
In this chemistry we’ve made
More
Further, further
We loathe
Further, we’re drifting
Hedons, you and I
(Loathe)
Distant dependence
Chemist reveries
Severance
Taste
Bitter symptoms
As we fold once
More
Further, further
We loathe
Haze, indecision
Truth so cold, (so)
Together we parade,
Hearts in disarray
In this chemistry we’ve made
More
Further, further
We loathe
Further, we’re drifting
Hedons, you and I
(Loathe)
Distant dependence
Chemist reveries
Keep arms length
How long?
Obsessed, we dream of times,
So different
A world we’ll soon forget
Brace
Severance
Falling grid of skies
Severance
Mediated realms
Further, we’re drifting
Hedons, you and I
(Loathe)
Distant dependence
Chemist reveries
Asunder world of mine
To bridge and reconcile
What was a certain sign
Affects to reap in time
A reverie, a reverie
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