Bay Area art rock/post-punk luminaries The Seshen is releasing its new album Nowhere on October 6, 2023. The album traces the group’s development and struggles as people and as a band with the marriage and divorce of Lalin St. Juste and Aki Ehara as part of the backdrop and emotional resonance of the songwriting. The single “Lost at Night” evokes a deep sense of personal disconnect and wistfulness for a time and place when things felt “normal” or at least like one was on some kind of footing even if that could feel tenuous at times. But everyone in the past few years has probably had their foundations shaken a little personally and in life in general. This song and its hazy production and echoing melodies with spectral tones and warping, bending guitar sounds in the mist of synths with St. Juste’s soulful vocals and the propulsive percussion anchoring the song and keeping those disconsolate moods from carrying us off to places even more removed from our center. It’s a song that feels gentle and compassionate in its ability to transport us from a place of utterly mystified reverie to one of acceptance of the inherent impermanence of almost all things in our lives and to find hope in how things can resolve when we make the effort or have the privilege of indulging patience in allowing events and hearts to reach their eventual places when they are beyond our ability to influence them. Listen to “Lost at Night” on Spotify and follow The Seshen on Instagram.
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