There’s a sense, listening to Anne Bennett’s Closing The Dark, that the transmission is arriving from another dimension: somewhere between a séance and a signal jammed by cosmic interference. Her voice feels like smoke curling through the woods as she writes from the threshold where anxiety, desire, and death share a drink and whisper secrets.
“Closing the Dark is a dark rock track that dives deep into the suffocating weight of anxiety and the spiral of catastrophizing thoughts that consume us when the world feels too heavy,” says Bennett. Her words read like a classified report from the psyche; encrypted and luminous. You can almost hear the tape hiss of the subconscious, the whirr of a mind replaying the same unease until it becomes rhythm.
Bennett’s vocals hover between incantation and confession, part radio transmission, part prayer to a god she no longer believes in. Born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, her haunting, melancholic vocals soar over dark melodies concerning death, love, heaven and hell. The song’s heartbeat is steady, synthetic, and human all at once; a machine teaching itself to feel.
Co-writer Ben Christo (The Sisters of Mercy) lends an unholy gravity: the architecture of gothic grandeur built from guitar and grief.
What Bennett explores here isn’t simply the self, but the self collapsing. Closing The Dark explores the deepest corners of the human experience, from the tender complexities of love and lust to the inevitable reality of death, where she weaves melodies that echo with raw emotion and delicate intensity. There’s something ritualistic in an acceptance of the algorithm of existence, where love and decay are interchangeable variables.
The production, handled by Matt McJunkins (A Perfect Circle), has the sheen of late-night electricity. Guitars and synths intersect like thoughts colliding mid-dream, while Jeff Friedl (Devo, A Perfect Circle) punctuates each measure as though decoding Morse from the underworld.
One feels as if they’ve witnessed an experiment in emotional alchemy, where pain becomes data, and data becomes art. Closing The Dark isn’t merely a song. It’s the echo of a dream, a dispatch from the anxious frontier between heaven, hell, and whatever remains when the radio goes silent.
Listen to “Closing the Dark” below:
Anne Bennett channels the haunted beauty of her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, into music that blurs the border between confession and invocation. With a voice that feels both spectral and human, she transforms personal turmoil into ritual, melding the sacred and profane through her blend of Gothic Rock, doom-tinged blues, and ethereal electronics. Her songs are transmissions from the liminal: dispatches from where faith fractures and desire lingers. Read our in-depth interview with Bennett about her creative process, spirituality, and more here.
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