POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK
IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I'M ALONE
Post Death Soundtrack’s fifth album is not here to soothe. In All My Nightmares I Am Alone throws subtlety out the window and replaces it with something more immediate, more visceral. From the first moments, there’s a feeling that this isn’t just a record, it’s a reckoning.
At the centre of it all is Stephen Moore, writing from a place that’s less about structure and more about survival. You can hear it most in TREMENS, a track completed while Moore was in the grips of delirium tremens, a state where the body and mind fray under withdrawal, where the stakes are literally life or death. There’s no posturing here. The sounds are jagged and unfiltered, sometimes beautiful, often bruising.
At the centre of it all is Stephen Moore, writing from a place that’s less about structure and more about survival. You can hear it most in TREMENS, a track completed while Moore was in the grips of delirium tremens, a state where the body and mind fray under withdrawal, where the stakes are literally life or death. There’s no posturing here. The sounds are jagged and unfiltered, sometimes beautiful, often bruising.
The album doesn’t stay in one place for long. Some moments nod to the same urgent storytelling found in Incesticide or Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, but Moore isn’t copying anyone. He’s documenting a freefall, fractured, unsettled, and painfully honest.
This is not an easy listen. It’s not meant to be. But in its refusal to play it safe, In All My Nightmares I Am Alone achieves something rare, it leaves a mark that feels entirely human.
This is not an easy listen. It’s not meant to be. But in its refusal to play it safe, In All My Nightmares I Am Alone achieves something rare, it leaves a mark that feels entirely human.