By Rom M bfan.link Other romm Bandcamp rommandel SoundCloud dissectumusic1 SoundCloud Spotify Spotify YouTube YouTube rom_mandel Instagram.
Released 10/31/2022.
Duration: 2:36.

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There are worlds out there that teem with life: loud and bustling and colorful, messy with the tangled fates of their myriad denizens. Not beautiful— in fact, often quite hideous— but at least interesting.

This variant is not one of them. It used to be colorful once, but then color became a memory, and now even the memory has faded into dust and decaying grays.

If boredom had a physical manifestation, this would be it. An empty expanse of flat land, with only the husks of old buildings, nearly abandoned, for the eye to snag on. Dead earth and deader sky; not even a gust of wind simulates drawing breath.

Then: a flicker.

A presence, beading through the membrane of the universe like blood from a pinprick. A globule of color swirls with dizzying vibrancy that defies the monochrome backdrop. It undulates, shivers, contorts itself into a spate of forms, one after the other, a rapid metamorphosis from everything into something that wouldn’t shatter a mortal mind.

Eventually, it settles. Knocks that dust right off.

And begins searching for someone who will listen to it.

Because this may be a dreadfully boring probability in an already dying world, but it is not dead yet.