Roughly Human Announces Sophomore Album ‘Almost Daylight, Hopeless Dawn’

Today, Vilnius’ own emo/post-hardcore act Roughly Human announces their narrative-driven sophomore full-length album ‘Almost Daylight, Hopeless Dawn’, out August 23rd.

The album tells a dense, literary and conceptually rich story about the Moon’s break up with the Sun, his trials and travails in search of meaning and eventual return to his rightful place as a second-rate celestial body. It features a mythologized retelling of autobiographical events, traumas and lessons reimagined as chapters of a fairy tale. Throughout the album’s duration, the band explores a variety of sonic pallets, from screamo and post-rock to rap metal and post-punk, thus creating vivid and distinct identities to match the many locales where each track takes place.

‘Almost Daylight, Hopeless Dawn’ will assemble two acts (originally released as EPs earlier this year) along with an unreleased final third, thus capping off the narrative the band  has been building for the past few months. 

‘Act I: Twilight’ begins at an end: a relationship is breathing its dying breath.Tired of being in the Sun’s shadow, possessed by jealousy and a lust for a new life, the Moon wages war on his lover and becomes the tyrant of his own kingdom, plunging the world into eternal night. The album’s lead single ‘Desert Dry’ is a fiery fusion of rap and post hardcore that finds itself in the midst of a desperate battle, a break up of earth-shattering proportions.

‘Act II: Moonshine’ finds the Moon in a somber state. Night after empty night, he seeks warmth, but finds nothing. Eventually he grows weary and begins to feel that the world is increasingly devoid of meaning. The act tells the story of his search for sustenance with increasing desperation to fill an ever-present lack that corrodes him from the inside. At the end we find him in a thatched hut, where he spends his days resigned, as an ascetic monk. After hitting rock bottom, during one of his meditations he realizes that there is no light or warmth without the Sun.

‘Act III: Sunrise’ details his Odyssean return to a home he may no longer have, filled with hope for reconciliation. The final track ‘Sunrise’ is an epic 7 minute plea, a tumultuous epilogue that ends in solace.