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boundary break

by salt sword

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1.
endless sigh 04:19
I gave up all my daylight for you Pretending everything is fine Power through To the end of the line Feeling nothing In the blood and gore I keep trying to find myself In an empty room In the endless, the endless sigh Living in the endless, the endless sigh Am I losing my mind? You've taken what you wanted to keep What am i without this void in me? When i fall back in What will i be? Witness starlight Wanting to explode Who could feather these four walls Raze them to their doom? Soul and body Stirring on the floor I keep trying to heal myself In an empty room In the endless, the endless sigh Living in the endless, the endless sigh Am I losing my mind? How do I know i'll be alright? (will it be easy again?) Am I losing my mind? How do I know i'll be alright? (will it be easy again?) (will it be easy again?) (will it be easy again?)
2.
90's game 03:51
[Spoken] Joined, combined, consolidated identities Everywhere at the same time Locked into your memory I suddenly was the convolution Bubbling with energy But without anything to believe in A cacophony of fertile labyrinths Whatever you wanted I could fill in the space Setup and takedown New me, new you, new them I'm holding my heart open like it's a 90s game With no save function Uproot me Drag me behind the car Here we are, we've arrived New me, new you, new them I'm keeping my eyes open like they're a 90s game With no save function And what am I now And what am I now And what am I now I'm trying to feel my own heartbeat I'm trying to feel the ground underneath Small town girl in a brand new town I'm bursting in flames but you don't hear the sound I'm breaking myself open like I'm a 90s game With no save function Boundary break to clip through the edge Find me in space uncontested by death
3.
giants below 02:45
what are you going to do? you feel the sky below you tiptoe a crumbling wall while you know the clouds won't catch you now you can barely breathe eyes in the castle windows look down to where you'd fall giants far below "I'm just going to dance my way through Just watch me vault right over you" I wrote a letter to my future self (hello) "Where did you learn to dance through hell? Every leap leaves me breathless and I am at their mercy Why do I dream of my past self when the giants used to catch me?"
4.
cloudwalker 02:22
5.
promise 04:24
when I find a way to make it all fall into place we're gonna slip through the little hole in the fence lost count of the days will we ever find a lifeline to our hands in the dirt, content you said we'll never reach the promised land “but in the end,” I replied, “This is all gonna make sense." amplified heat wave too many paradises paved gravity keeps me pinned to the floor wading in the shallows of artificial waves, they have taken away the shore now it's change we crave you didn't want to go back to the clothes you wore before
6.
I wanna wake up in a new beginning I wanna find all the pieces of me again I've been a stack of books in the corner, left unread we've been carrying brick walls in our pockets they've been stopping us from moving ahead the things you tell yourself when you feel too much they leave you numb, or they leave a mark, oh I've been trying to pull my name from the tip of my tongue But I've been heavy from a thousand alarms, oh are you feeling the end coming? have you been feeling the air getting under your skin? it's like trying to angrily throw a playing card they put brick walls in our pockets they've been crushing us, while the waters clutch at our ankles You can read the floods and fires in my eyes I feel the trembling in your undulating sighs cut slowly with a dull knife, it leaves me in the autumn of rose-coloured sight the things you tell yourself when you feel too much they leave you numb, or they leave a mark, oh I've been trying to pull my name from the tip of my tongue But I've been heavy from a thousand alarms, oh
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about

These songs slowly found their way to me after losing a job and floundering in uncertainty for over a year. I would sit at my computer after a long day of job hunting and just put together odd little sounds. Eventually I started singing, and writing whole songs after a long period of creative drought. Into these songs I poured my anxiety, optimism, love, confusion, and grief. I approached each song differently, experimenting with new production techniques, and borrowing from many different genres to assemble a pop-adjacent project that I'm really proud of.

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released January 27, 2023

written and produced by Colin Ablitt
mastered by Josh Eastman at Helm Studios
cover illustration by Jessica Hurd
salt sword logo by Natahsha Priya

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salt sword Vancouver, British Columbia

keeping it tender and peppery since 2021.

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