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Lungs Like Lead

by The Corrupting Sea

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    "Lungs Like Lead" has been a work in progress for almost three years. Besides the recording and mastering, which were mentally taxing due to the material, The Corrupting Sea wanted to put this very personal album inside a book with artwork that also reflected the feeling of the tracks. Coming in very limited quantity, when the book is gone, it will likely be gone. If it is ever reprinted, "Lungs Like Lead" will likely be packaged in another way, perhaps changing colors, new order, or by some other means.

    The books are made by Simple Box Construction and I highly recommend other artists use his incredible talent to create beautiful releases.

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about

This album is dedicated to all who suffer from mental difficulties, disorders, or whatever adjective one might give the struggles many of us work through daily. This is a very personal album. I suffer from PTSD, depression, and social anxiety disorder and, unlike many others in the population, I process sensory data in ways others don’t. As I recorded this album, I tried to be as open as I could with my disabilities, taking the lines of a poem I wrote in 2013 as the title for each track and attempted to transform them into a sonic story telling of the struggle.

What I want to say is stay strong and, even when your lungs feel like lead, breath.

You are loved and the world needs you. I struggle alongside you.

Lungs Like Lead

I sit in the corner
Knees to chin
Scratching the wall
Dark
My spirit twists
Aches
I make circles on my feet
With fingertips raw
Muscles tight
Cramped
Lungs like lead
~ Jason T. Lamoreaux, April 19, 2013

"The Corrupting Sea – “Lungs Like Lead”
Speaking of trauma channeled into and released as music, Somewherecold Records owner Jason Lamoreaux recently dropped his extremely personal new album Lungs Like Lead that deals with his ongoing mental health struggles through dystopian ambient/noise soundscapes. This title track is the most hopeful of the run of songs on the LP, an ambient/synths moodscape with a brief message of survival against the odds… “Just breathe…”
~Jen Dan
bigtakeover.com/top-ten/JenDanOctober52022

An interview with Doodlehound and The Corrupting Sea:
doodlehound.blogspot.com/2022/11/doodlehound-interview-doodlehound-vs.html

"The abstraction of ambient music is inherently ethereal, and thus difficult to dissect. However, a more concrete structure and significance exists in The Corrupting Sea’s Lungs Like Lead, its mantra of meaning built around psychological struggles and existential complications. Stemming from a past poem predicated on the angst and world weariness of both composer Jason Lamoreaux and the world more broadly, claustrophobic bits of Kid A and Amnesiac suffusing its atmospheric gloom. Although such straightforward declarations of subject matter arguably inculcate listener bias, it lends itself in this instance to better unpacking the sonic textures of the album. A pervasive sense of melancholy permeates its length, and sensibly so. Refrains of backwards-masked percussion, vocals, and slow choral pads comprise its atmospheric underpinnings, the added tension of metallic grating or frenetic strings slowly increasing the barometric pressure of the piece. Yet, there’s never anything quite so conspicuous as a volta to the album, just a continuing descent into dolor. Despite more aggressive dynamics admittedly not being quite par for the experimental course, this is nonetheless one of the arguable shortcomings of the album. However, there is an appreciable progression of alienation and absence. Listeners looking for a steady flow of downtempo ambience and phobic Zen will appreciate Lungs Like Lead for the soundscapes it engenders and the dissonant vibrations of its ambient melodies."
Colin Andrew MacDougall (VexationsandtheVile)
regenmag.com/reviews/review-the-corrupting-sea-lungs-like-lead/?fbclid=IwAR2FgIleDLr5kKzv8KxvrJkraxWQtMAWNnVCt-Og43_t-0jaAhabH4eZgS4

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released September 2, 2022

The Corrupting Sea is Jason T. Lamoreaux
Mixed and Mastered by Jason T. Lamoreaux at Somewherecold Studios
Layout by Simple Box Construction & Jason T. Lamoreaux
Book Binding and Construction by Simple Box Construction
Book Images by Jason T. Lamoreaux
Cover, CD, and Unique Text by Cory Fusting

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The Corrupting Sea Shelbyville, Kentucky

The Corrupting Sea is the ambient project of Jason T. Lamoreaux. An expression of feelings and very personal experiences, the ambient moods generated through Jason's work are expressions of real life stories and moments.

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