SINGLE REVIEW: SESPOOL “THE RECKONING”
“Screaming in the rain, the sound of suffering. All alone again, and they will never hear you.” Sespool “The Reckoning”
Progressive rock and dream pop hold together the discussion of the increasingly intensified economic gap between the average working class and the wealthy upper class in the past two decades. Sespool intuitively brought in Trap and metal elements, illustrating the emotional stretch. Besides fairytales and the things we tell ourselves to get up in the morning, the grim truth staringly burns a hole through pretense.
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The world is constantly repeating its toxic cycle of extremes. The rich live at the top of the world with money, power, and connections, while the poor kept struggling in the mud, having little to no chance of getting out of their doomed destiny. “Nothing feels the same as when you were my age. Lick your wounds and talk your shit. There’s no way to escape.”
The rich are on the receiving end of massive money, and the poor...the poor struggles to live from paycheck to paycheck. The gap between them is unbridgable. “Living for the one percent, drowning in our hopelessness. You suck my blood; it makes me sick, and I cannot break free of it.”
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