Ways of Seeing’s Cruel, Naturally is a haunting slice of shoegaze-soaked indie rock that stares straight into the weight of inherited trauma. Guitars blur into aching waves, vocals hover like fragments of memory, and the track swells with both tenderness and rage. Inspired in part by Philip Larkin’s This Be The Verse, it grapples with cycles that feel impossible to break—love tangled with silence, empathy bound up with burden. There’s beauty in its heaviness, a kind of fragile catharsis that lingers long after the last note fades.
A gripping preview from their upcoming album The Inheritance of Fear (out Oct 10)
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