“I will eternally miss you when the abyss finally disintegrates me” by the fear of death and the end of time is in fact not a song by an early 2000s emocore band nor is it post-rock. The sentence of the title captures the mood of a song that starts off sounding like it’s going to be a cool, lo-fi indiepop song before the distortion kicks in a little and ups the emotional intensity for a moment before transitioning to the end with the spoken word piece over the melancholic, harmonic drone. The nearly whispered words come across like the final page of a diary entry of someone who is living at the end of the world and regrets not having more time with their loved one and how cruel that that connection had to happen right when there is no escaping the eschatological disaster. Fans of Slint’s influential 1991 album Spiderland will appreciate the mood of this song and the rest of the album together we fade away though this music is more in the realm of noise and drone but the enigmatic tone of the song and the album resonates deeply with the mood of what Slint has done. Fans of They Are Gutting a Body of Water will find more than a little to like here too. One might think of the track as kind of a bummer but take a look at the world and the impending doom of climate collapse and socio-political disintegration in late stage capitalism and it hits as more poignant. Listen to “I will eternally miss you when the abyss finally disintegrates me” on YouTube and follow the fear of death and the end of time on Bandcamp.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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