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Sump

by James Chelliah

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about

Existential indie rap over mostly live instrumentation, exploring the tension of trying to live in the present while reckoning with the knowledge that you are the sum of your messy, mistake-ridden past.

We set out to create this project to:

-explore the differences between shame and guilt.
-explore why friendship expectations are often unhelpful, unreasonable and rigid.
-explore if there was no such thing as an incontrovertible truth.
-explore if it was actually practicably possible to ‘live in the present’ and detach from
-one’s past.
-honestly express how we felt about what we found.
(There are more reasons, but these are the core bits)

And we wanted to explore these ideas without taking a stand for any side of any debate that has a preordained agenda, whether conscious, subconscious or unconscious. We were sick of people pressuring people to take sides, or to take up causes, especially on the basis of their arguments, rather than encouraging people to think about things for themselves. We were sick of the veneration of history, and the past, and the future, and the vain concept of legacy.

Any thing or idea that makes people uncomfortable to dissect, we tried to look at. We feared no deep dive, nor what there is to find. There wasn't a catharsis to it; what we wrote was a quintessential kernel of our lives.

We chased the human – not race, class, politics, or anything else arbitrary that separates. It’s stuff that humans, in society, everywhere are going to deal with, always, I think. And we made an active choice to write about these things, and not get fixed by the arbitrary things that people want to convince us separate us.

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released May 9, 2020

Produced & Mixed by James Chelliah
Mastered by Alex Wharton

Executive Produced by Stefan Shillingford
Art Design by Amalia Navarro

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