Personally, I'm not too into the sound of the new album and I feel that the songs on this album are less personal and emotional than both Alopecia and Elephant Eyelash. That being said, One Rose is my favorite or second favorite song from Eskimo Snow. I think that Yoni wrote this song to explain how he feels that he doesn't fit in with society and has trouble relating to those around him. He feels as though something must be physically wrong with him that causes this separation between him and others but he can't distinguish what that is as shown with the line "all the things inside me i assume, are doing what they need to be doing." Yoni ends the song with "looks like a sky for shoeing horses under..looks like a sky, of some kind" which refers back to the song from Alopecia. In A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under, this line essentially means to give up and to move on. In that song, Yoni was referring to moving on in his musical career away from cLOUDDEAD. Yoni returns to the same idea and applies the same concept in this song; however, in One Rose Yoni is dealing with his life in general particularly his youth and his uncertainty of how to go about life. He debates whether or not to go on with life in a world where he feels misunderstood or to end it all in suicide.
I'd beg to differ about the album being less personal and emotional than earlier work. It is by far his most confessional and emotional songwriting to date.
I'd beg to differ about the album being less personal and emotional than earlier work. It is by far his most confessional and emotional songwriting to date.
Let's consider the title of the album "Eskimo Snow" and it's relationship to the titular lyric: "All my words for sadness, like Eskimo snow". He's playing off of the belief that Eskimo's have hundreds of words for snow as a metaphor for album's hundreds of words exploring his depression, fears, anxieties and insecurities. Quite brilliant, imho.
Let's consider the title of the album "Eskimo Snow" and it's relationship to the titular lyric: "All my words for sadness, like Eskimo snow". He's playing off of the belief that Eskimo's have hundreds of words for snow as a metaphor for album's hundreds of words exploring his depression, fears, anxieties and insecurities. Quite brilliant, imho.
But let's not stop there. Below is an excerpt from every song...
But let's not stop there. Below is an excerpt from every song to back up my previously stated belief:
"These hands are my father's hands but smaller, soaked in paint thinner til they're so dry coming together they make a shril sound like two moving tires touching, hide nothing."
"now my bike tires flat, i must have run over some glass in the dark, or it might have got slashed cause I was messing around with someone's ex-girlfriend again"
"oh am i too concerned with the burn of scrutiny[...]will i gain weight in later life and when will someone swing a scythe against me!"
"my true purpose which i will have taken the care to have kept hidden even from myself my whole life"
"i wish i could feel close to somebody but i don't feel nothing. now they say i need to quit doing all this random ffff-[...]and i know saying all this in public should make me feel funny, but ya gotta yell something out you'd never tell nobody."
"in time in the bathroom mirror i learned to accept my body."
"The rat that's caught in the ribs of me will be released within the year"
"Will this new year's see my rotting hair's release? Will my new black book pull the sick from my deepest creases?"
"i wanna speak at an intimate decibel with the precision of an infinite decimal; to listen up and send back a true echo of something forever felt but never heard. i want that sharpened steel of truth in every word"
"Then I'm still here. Bearing my watery fruits if fruits at all. Then I'm still here. Barely understanding what truth that rarely calls."
Personally, I'm not too into the sound of the new album and I feel that the songs on this album are less personal and emotional than both Alopecia and Elephant Eyelash. That being said, One Rose is my favorite or second favorite song from Eskimo Snow. I think that Yoni wrote this song to explain how he feels that he doesn't fit in with society and has trouble relating to those around him. He feels as though something must be physically wrong with him that causes this separation between him and others but he can't distinguish what that is as shown with the line "all the things inside me i assume, are doing what they need to be doing." Yoni ends the song with "looks like a sky for shoeing horses under..looks like a sky, of some kind" which refers back to the song from Alopecia. In A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under, this line essentially means to give up and to move on. In that song, Yoni was referring to moving on in his musical career away from cLOUDDEAD. Yoni returns to the same idea and applies the same concept in this song; however, in One Rose Yoni is dealing with his life in general particularly his youth and his uncertainty of how to go about life. He debates whether or not to go on with life in a world where he feels misunderstood or to end it all in suicide.
I'd beg to differ about the album being less personal and emotional than earlier work. It is by far his most confessional and emotional songwriting to date.
I'd beg to differ about the album being less personal and emotional than earlier work. It is by far his most confessional and emotional songwriting to date.
Let's consider the title of the album "Eskimo Snow" and it's relationship to the titular lyric: "All my words for sadness, like Eskimo snow". He's playing off of the belief that Eskimo's have hundreds of words for snow as a metaphor for album's hundreds of words exploring his depression, fears, anxieties and insecurities. Quite brilliant, imho.
Let's consider the title of the album "Eskimo Snow" and it's relationship to the titular lyric: "All my words for sadness, like Eskimo snow". He's playing off of the belief that Eskimo's have hundreds of words for snow as a metaphor for album's hundreds of words exploring his depression, fears, anxieties and insecurities. Quite brilliant, imho.
But let's not stop there. Below is an excerpt from every song...
But let's not stop there. Below is an excerpt from every song to back up my previously stated belief:
"These hands are my father's hands but smaller, soaked in paint thinner til they're so dry coming together they make a shril sound like two moving tires touching, hide nothing."
"now my bike tires flat, i must have run over some glass in the dark, or it might have got slashed cause I was messing around with someone's ex-girlfriend again"
"oh am i too concerned with the burn of scrutiny[...]will i gain weight in later life and when will someone swing a scythe against me!"
"my true purpose which i will have taken the care to have kept hidden even from myself my whole life"
"i wish i could feel close to somebody but i don't feel nothing. now they say i need to quit doing all this random ffff-[...]and i know saying all this in public should make me feel funny, but ya gotta yell something out you'd never tell nobody."
"in time in the bathroom mirror i learned to accept my body."
"The rat that's caught in the ribs of me will be released within the year"
"Will this new year's see my rotting hair's release? Will my new black book pull the sick from my deepest creases?"
"i wanna speak at an intimate decibel with the precision of an infinite decimal; to listen up and send back a true echo of something forever felt but never heard. i want that sharpened steel of truth in every word"
"Then I'm still here. Bearing my watery fruits if fruits at all. Then I'm still here. Barely understanding what truth that rarely calls."