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The Compartmentalization of Decay

by Kira McSpice

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1.
A Prayer for the Sealing of the 4th Wall
2.
I’m still awake as the red dawn comes down on me The road stretches away as I lean my head out The window Watch me forced Out of my body Tear me away From the screen I look out I sit at a table with a glass I want to tip over That hovering Feeling I Want to destroy you Help me escape Through the dark night with fire burning Collapse as I bleed into the hall From the knife like a spile That hole you made Inside me still I want to destroy you
3.
Dark and Endless Fog
4.
Get You Out
5.
Blackfly
6.
Supplication of the Maple
7.
Photosynthesis
8.
Sugaring
9.
Wherever I Go
10.
Evaporate 04:27
The morning came stark and blood red The compulsion to repeat It birthed again something I’d regret Cause the loop inside of me Kept me blank and suffering Kept me weak and turning in At least I knew that I was lost When I held your hand the next morning So I turned inside always hoping for No more dreams of constantly running Through a field or alleyway Far from all the same mistakes I must have known the difference Just flame on a boiling pot But during that time I forgot My hands my body reaching for a new way to boil me down The fresh wound sugar syrup blood Is dripping on the ground You could not evaporate All the love inside of me You could not evaporate All the love inside that shaped me You could not evaporate All the love inside of me You could not evaporate All the love inside that shaped me
11.
To Lead Me Home
12.
The 4th Wall Has Been Sealed

about

Gothic folk singer/songwriter Kira McSpice's desire to grow a garden led to a fortuitous exploration of her own trauma in upcoming LP "The Compartmentalization of Decay" (CODIT), out April 12.

When she stumbled upon a video detailing how maple trees are tapped for syrup, McSpice was struck by a comment in which someone inquired whether the process harms the tree. She discovered that much like the mechanisms humans use while protecting themselves from traumatic experiences, maple trees, forever scarred by mankind's greed, survive by forming protective layers around their wounds.

"I was raped when I was 19 by someone that I loved, and I continued to be with that person for years after. As soon as I learned about this method of how the trees seal the wall, it made me think of that immediately," says McSpice. Like the maple tree, McSpice found herself using the album CODIT as a way to compartmentalize her trauma and process it. "I wanted to get vinyl made and be able to hold it outside of myself. Be able to hold this compartmentalized trauma as if it was a sliver of a tree," she explains.

Through the maple tree, she revisits her own healing process, from the self-preserving disassociation following the initial harm in "Knife Like a Spile," to the dawning of finding inner strength to move forward in "To Lead Me Home." With the assistance of longtime collaborators Tyler Skolgund and Will Ponturo (Wiles), McSpice crafts lush modal soundscapes out of glass harp, corrugaphone, musical saw, cello, synths, and trombone to evoke elements of a haunted forest, with intrusive distorted guitar from Ponturo protruding at key moments to signal the tree's desolation.

With its conceptual focus and sonic grandeur, CODIT is McSpice's most direct work yet. Establishing different roles to each instrument (most of which performed by McSpice herself) to represent each of the story's characters creates an enthralling narrative that draws you in. The album serves as a reminder that even in the darkest moments, there is beauty waiting to be uncovered in the defiant spirit of perseverance.

-Written by Tatiana Tenreyro

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releases April 12, 2024

Written and Produced by Kira McSpice

Recorded, Mixed, and Produced by Tyler Skoglund

Mastered by James Plotkin

The characters:

Narration - vocals - Kira McSpice
Spile - distorted guitar - William Ponturo
Red Sky - synth - Tyler Skoglund
Fog - effected guitar - William Ponturo
Maple Tree - cello - Kira McSpice
Bucket - bucket - Tyler Skoglund
Sun - trombone - Kalun Leung
Earth - electric guitar - Kira McSpice
Water - glass harp - Kira McSpice
Wind - corrugaphone - Kira McSpice
Spirits - musical saw - Kira McSpice

Special Thanks:

Zoe Lober, Joachim Petzold, Trina Merz, Jack Whelan, Robyn Graygor, Karen Skoglund

Album art painted by Robyn Graygor

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