Between now and then, Chalk Hands have been busy behind the scenes gearing up to give the record the release it deserves, and are elated to be putting it out with Dog Knights Productions in 2022, a label that the band have followed and supported as fans for the last decade, so the pairing feels as natural as it does exciting.
Whilst the subject underpinning the album may seem obvious from the title, the manner in which DTAD considers mortality is far from so. Rather, it is a measured exploration of the multiple conflicts that we accumulate just from thinking – and not thinking – about death: some may lie down in fear of it or choose to shut out the thought altogether; others will find comfort in the communal knowledge of its ubiquitous inevitability, and use that as motivation for making more with the time they have. The majority of us, however, experience both at some point or other, as well as everything in between, and the act of living with this dichotomy is what the record plays out so well.