Check out the music video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v81QmB0HboM
This song was incredibly difficult to write, and harder still to actually record. But I owe it to myself for the world to hear it.
Pain is no stranger to my music; I've long held pain inside of me and I’ve written about it at length. I hesitate to call myself a survivor of domestic abuse, because there are times when I am not sure if I survived or if I’m just alive. What that abuse left was a ravenous black hole that has since sucked in everything good that has dared tread too close.
Dying Star is a song about unrelenting pain. The world-shattering trauma that defines every facet of your being. The pain you push through only to drag it in your wake. It’s not an uplifting anthem of healing, it is visceral ownership of pain, and yet, the very act of writing this song and - surrendering to the bitter and unyielding reality - healed me, even if only a little.
Pain is inescapable, but if you do find yourself spiralling, believing nothing will ever be okay again, I hope you can listen to Dying Star and I hope at the very least, you won’t feel so alone in that abyss.
I am incredibly grateful to Joe who did an unbelievably delicate job on the mixing and mastering, who understood my vision and elevated it to something truly beautiful, and I am also incredibly grateful to Max Harris of Kite Thief for contributing guitars to this track. He brought gravitas and depth. Dying Star wouldn't be half the song it is without both of them, so please go and check out their work.
Joe Marsh:
www.instagram.com/joemarshrecording/
Max Harris:
www.instagram.com/maxharrismusic/
released February 24, 2023
Production, Lyrics, and Vocals by Effy Gold
With guest guitars from Max Harris of Kite Thief
Mixed and Mastered by Joe Marsh