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About to Die
Rock · 2012 · 4 tracks · 12m

About to Die

Four tracks of surgical art-pop precision. Jagged guitars and interlocking vocal harmonies create a beautiful, high-concept meditation on mortality.

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It sounds like a math genius trying to write a soul record in a glass house.

A high-wire act of intellectual curiosity and existential dread, delivered with surgical precision.

About to Die · vs · Dirty Projectors
Autumn Walk+2.6σ

Autumn Walk saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 4 Tracks · 12m
01
About to Die
4:01
02
While You’re Here
2:04
03
Here Til It Says I’m Not
3:19
04
Simple Request
2:46
Moments Worth Waiting For
The title track's opening guitar riff that feels like a mechanical bird taking flight.
The sudden, breathy vocal harmonies on 'While You’re Here' that arrive like a ghost in the room.
The way the percussion on 'Simple Request' mimics the frantic heartbeat of a nervous conversation.
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