From the restless underworld of New York City, Some Days Are Darker steps forward with “Devotion,” a song that treats desire as both a curse and a cathedral. Lear Mason, once a metalcore guitarist, now recasts himself as high priest of nocturnal yearning. His voice incants, each syllable smudged with hunger, each phrase soaked in a strange sacrament.
The message behind Devotion is that love is most alive when it is perilous. The words “coil” and “writhe” summon images of lovers bound together in darkness, where obsession breathes against the skin and every kiss feels like surrender to a deeper abyss. Mason’s lyrical hand sketches a romance that is never serene, always strained against its own edges. To be adored here is to be possessed. To hold is to haunt. The refrain asks for an embrace while admitting that the embrace must hurt. It is a hymn to passion’s cruelty, sung by someone addicted to its exquisite punishment.
The arrangement drapes itself in the noir tones of 80s alt romanticism, heavy with reverb and lit with the dim glow of red bulbs. Guitars prowl like figures at the back of the room, while synths lean forward as if to confess. A steady rhythm drives the song into its own fever, but never to exhaustion. Instead, it circles like a ritual repeated, one more chant, one more kiss at the altar of ruin.
Mason himself directs the accompanying video, filmed by Alina Melina. A darkened New York club becomes a theatre of devotion: faces half-lit, bodies caught between desire and disappearance. It feels like the afterimage of a late-night show that may never have happened, or one you dreamt you attended, where the performance seemed less entertainment than exorcism. The camera lingers in the half-light, watching musicians and shadows blur until the distinction between them dissolves.
In Devotion, Some Days Are Darker are wedded to the dark, and in that marriage, they find truth.
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