The Saddest Album I've Ever Experienced, Part 4

Welcome back to The Saddest Album I’ve Ever Experienced. This is the fourth part of a six-part series.

Part D; the terrifying unknown after stage 2, late stage two at that, because we will hit Stage 3 here in this article. It’s a tough listen, especially the aforementioned “STAGE 3”. Get your tissues ready, because oh me, oh my.

Reader’s discretion is advised.

If you want to catch up on the first three articles I read, I’ll link them in the bottom.

D1- “I Still Feel as though I am Here”- As the song opens with a drone, crackles and a haze, it also opens with what sounds to be a church bell, slowed into an extra hum. There is something so familiar, yet not. This song slowly turns into a horror score, with strings playing somewhat out of tune, and harshen the music that it is supposed to play with. In the background of this, remnants of songs from the first part call through, in an echo-y dream feel. The song transitions into a delight to listen to, soothing, calming, easily part of the ballroom we hold so dearly to ourselves.

D2- “Quiet Dusk Coming Early”- The echo in this song is strong enough to make anyone feel uneasy. It makes you feel uneasy because it is mostly focused to one stem of the track, everything else but the violin in this song is normal, with the occasional crackle, but that string instrument? Echoes into a void. Its as if its saying “You remember some things, but you are also losing small details, small memories that flash in front of you, that bring you joy, they’re going and going fast.” The song begins to warp more, the distortion getting louder, the skipping is unbearable, the haze, is too much to sit through.

D3- “Last Moments of Pure Recall”- The name already tells you what to expect. The song is pure, blissful, we are transferred back into the ballroom, our glimmer of hope. And that makes this song the saddest. This song is the “go towards the light” of our memories. A soothing, calming, breathtaking symphony of joy and laughter, happiness and comfort. These isn’t much to say about this song other than its beautifully haunting, because of the title we know what’s about to happen next, a wicked descent. A moment we wish we could’ve lived in forever, gone forever. It plays for so long, like waiting for a Band-Aid to be ripped off, then just like that, silence.

D4- “Denial Unravelling”- The haze has come back to haunt us. It masks the echoing rise of a beautiful orchestra. The echoing makes you feel as if you’re falling while listing to the song play over an intercom. It wants to be beautiful; it wants to be accepted, but the horror, the sadness, the loss, repetitiveness, it just won’t let the song land the way it should, and its frustrating. We don’t want this disease, this ailment, but we have no choice, we can’t get better, it’s not possible. This song is perfect at making you feel trapped, but still fighting back, punching at ghosts.

D5- “The way ahead feels lonely”- This somber tune feels like it isn’t about us, but about our caretaker. The terrifying thought of slowly losing a loved one as they’re still alive, the expenses, the heartbreak, the months, even years of seeing this person suffer through a disease they don’t even know is affecting them anymore. It’s a sign of weakness, and loneliness. All these thoughts loud in the caretakers head, as our favorite music echoes in the background. It’s a feeling of wanting to give up, but just can’t, because if they give up, we are doomed.

“STAGE 3” – Stage 3 opens with a shocking sound of triumphant noises, that once you distinguish and realize, that’s what it all is, noise. Hardly any music can be pointed out, and if it can be, it’s gone in an instant. This noise mellows out and turns into only echoes of certain songs, nit a full song. Its so hard to distinguish what is happening, what we are listening to, it’s getting worse. Its as if we are only getting glimpses, pieces of songs, that don’t even sound good, then it warps into another song, and so on and so on. Its all noise still. Our music, our memories, our light, is slowly turning into nothingness. The warping and distortion, echoes, and skipping really brings home this vulgar display of decay in the brain. This song perfectly shows what Stage 3 is like. Trouble remembering names and words, challenges in a social setting, extreme anxiety. The scariest part of this song is how abruptly it stops, allowing us to enter series E.

Next article will be the longest one yet, covering E1-F6. Then the final parts of the album after that.

Hug someone you love, tell the people in your life you love them, and stay safe.

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