Begging Guitars by PLEASER

Through the darkest night, at the loneliest hour, in the harshest repression, music ejects negativity from our souls and provides the simplest, purest escape. Many artists experience relief from their pain as they address the darkness through performance, and this relief visibly appears alongside the underlying pain on Begging Guitars by PLEASER. Lyrical themes of spiritual hopelessness and nihilistic self-destruction pair with a noisy, intense punk atmosphere to establish our deeply distressing setting. However, as each song gradually progresses into an increasingly chaotic wall of guitar, paradoxically warm, comforting countermelodies trickle in, coexisting with some of the album’s bleakest and most cathartic lyrical moments. This musical pivot towards the light offers up suffering into the metaphysical void, finding meaning in return through artistic release and immediately reflecting this release back into the art itself. Though the lyrics have not yet caught up to this ecstatic performance, we already see how the story ends, or at least how the hellish story becomes a bit more bearable: through the very musical community that we participate in by listening to the record.