“The Night Feeling”
Synestia
Synestia
Original Release Date: 02/10/3521
If you were sentenced to life on a rapidly spinning doughnut-shaped mass of vaporized rock, you might have some objections. Keyboardist Mukhop (she of the amphibian variety hailing from Eukaryota) had been caught breaking windows with cans of OileeZ, the Universe's go-to lubricant for shuttle pistons, the result of an inebriated afternoon with her bandmates Toruss and Roche. After being kicked out of their recording studio, the genre-defying Grenouilles Avenue, for not paying their studio time tab, the recklessness of a couple of jugs of Crimson Shine led to a stretch of debauchery in the destructive sense. A couple of warbling sirens and flashing lights later, the book was thrown at them (though Toruss and Roche escaped significant penalties as both their fathers owned mildly successful shuttle dealerships). Seemingly unperturbed, Mukhop used this opportunity to map out her sonic rebirth. No longer able to trust her now former bandmates, Synestia, named after the forbidden rock prison she toiled within for nearly a decade, became a one-amphibian wrecking crew, unleashing her self-titled, and surprisingly mature post-post-post-new-punk manifesto. Life on Synestia consisted of hard labor and even harder bread. Breaking rocks in the hot sun tends to make the convicted there develop Cranial Alloy Syndrome, the result of bashing one's skull in with the flimsy metal tools distributed to break the aforementioned rocks. While her sentence was on the lighter side, she had the foresight to compartmentalize the painful labor, using the musicality of the torturous rock fields and the tin echo of the Mess Hall to lay out eight tracks of surprisingly restrained melodies. Synestia was a masterclass in capturing solitary nights and dizzying days, her eyes averted from the swirling stars caught up in the vortex of the prison. The album was a hit among the incarcerated and those who felt othered by a system which was stacked against them. The proceeds from the album went directly to the South Quadrant Poverty Law Collective to advocate for those who did not have the means to advocate for themselves and to fight for incarcerated rights in the hope that the system could one day heal instead of harm.
Side A
Gas Giant
Kelvin
What Worlds Collide
Equilibrate
Side B
Roche Limit
Fields of Disks
Melancholia
The Night Feeling