On Homo Anxietatem, Shamir explores the aftermath of 2022's Heterosexuality—examining the liminal spaces of survival and bodies amid life's vignettes.
—which was produced by Hollow Comet—aka Isaac Eiger from Strange Ranger—and you could see his imprint all across the album, as Shamir emblazoned a deft resistance to being pigeonholed, much like Eiger’s own band.was a sacred, often uncomfortable text that worked to carve out space to flaunt in a room full of despair and violence. Listening to it was—and still is—no easy task.
Immediately after, “Wandering Through” adopts an anti-anthem shine—as Shamir’s vocals are center-stage, but their guitar-playing turns this standard dream-pop track into a wall of pristine noise. Raw and unfiltered, Shamir doesn’t attempt to make “Wandering Through” into something it’s not; there are no cliché self-help resolutions. At its core, it’s a song about intrusive thoughts and about how the pain we carry sticks with us.
There are flashes of chart-topping, mainstream architecture here, too. If you told me “The Beginning” went #1 for a week in 2006, I’d fully buy into that proposed arc. In the wake of a project likeHomo Anxietatem “Without You” plugs in these heavy, hard-rock-inspired drum thuds and sharp guitar riffs—as Shamir storyboards everything from their stint in an institution to grappling with how loss and grief are not bound to one moment in time. “I’ve lost my mind many times and I’ll do it again,” they sing. “A break from this reality to remind myself not to play pretend. And I don’t wanna live forever and I thank the stars I won’t. But as we multiply, our bodies die but all the damage carries on.
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