Inflatable Gravestone

Description

Inflatable Gravestone is the debut album from Mun Sing (aka Harry Wright of Giant Swan). The album is driven by the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. Their father battled addiction and the album explores ‘spirituality’ and the ‘higher self’, in relation to addiction and its parallels, with grief coping mechanisms. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction in dealing with loss. Flirting with awkward, suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and unexpected, jolting cartoon-esque humour, taking inspiration from Art Of Noise as much as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by them and their father. Their father’s rehab journals provided the basis for most of the lyrics. Some take whole phrases as a means of physically bringing his words to life for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations, and apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone evokes folk music and the timelessness of the human condition. A deeply moving and personal record, with corkscrewing twists and a healthy dose of the absurd.