Tag: “Sarah and Ludo” (Astronaut 9 song)

Astronaut 9 recently released the album Everything Like It’s the Last Time, a fusion of post-rock and spoken word poetry. The track “Sarah and Ludo CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide, Self-Harm, Eating Disorders” is an emotionally bracing and raw portrait of a friend that challenges you, whose insight, sensitivity and strength could not spare her the psychic ravages of a life hostile to her very existence. The content warning given previously is because the piece dives deep into the reality of that friend’s life and death and how nothing will ever fully fill the hole in your life left by that friend’s absence. As the song progresses it becomes a celebration of that friend and their impact on you and others because the only way to honor such people is to honor that impact and what it is about them that made them dear and special to you. The music goes from spare and almost stark to full and luminous. Listen to the track on Soundcloud.