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The new album from Bonnie Trash is released this Friday. Here’s a further taster in the form of latest track share, ‘Haunt Me (What Have You Become)’. The album is called ‘Mourning You’. Are you seeing a theme here?
‘Mourning You’ finds Bonnie Trash, twins Emmalia & Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor, embracing a newfound sense of urgency. The album is, put bluntly, an album about death. Not death in the macabre, violent, or outrageous sense, but death as you or I might know it. A spectre lurking around the corner. Capricious, indiscriminate, and unexpected. Ordinary and all the more terrifying for it. Real. Fear in the eyes of a loved one about to die, and the fear in your eyes – staring back. This is sorrow not as a lingering bruise, but a gushing wound.
Their final new track ahead of the album’s release comes alongside a lyric video today. A soaring and crashing crescendo, “Haunt Me (What Have You Become(“ speaks of life after losing a loved one. The band comment: “Your misery consumes you. And you torture yourself. You’ve changed in ways that no-one can recognize – you can’t even recognize yourself. The guilt haunts you everyday. You wonder what you could have done to help – to care more, to love more, to hold them in your arms one last time. You think about what you could have done differently; maybe if you visited more it would have made a difference. You blame yourself for everything and death has become you.
“Haunt Me (What Have You Become) is a conversation with oneself on how we change when we experience the loss of life, yet it also questions the life after the death of a loved one. Where is my love? When will I see them again? How will I see them again? Confronting sorrow and heartache is difficult, yet it can also ignite beautiful memories, longing for one more day to be with them again.”
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