Spleen (Narrator's Edition)
The Loneliness of Madness
Thank you for the continued support as I share my most honest work yet.
This album is the belly of the beast, the great purge within "The Blackest Bile's" story arc. And due to this, I've provided the 988 introduction to remind any listener there is help, and it's okay to opt out.
I found myself writing this over the course of my life wanting to see my experience portrayed as someone with their own mental health struggles. And though the album is raw and unrelenting, I wanted to showcase the turth in the battles of a person trying. I wanted to write an album that gave what my younger self was denied - permission to grieve. And I hope, though some tracks are particularly damning, that what is taken from this is the unadulterated resilience one may posess.
I now give you permission to grieve.
with love and hope,
Irene Wilde
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The Blackest Bile Original Recordings
Melancholia
“An artist shares intimate details regarding the symptoms of her disorder. Disclaimer: underneath a haunt pop exterior lies gut-wrenching lyrical catharsis.”
Released September 10, 2020 independently as Irene Wilde’s debut, self-produced extended play. Written in the thralls of a bipolar episode, the four tracks vividly depict mental disorder and its subsequent symptoms. It is an extended play that both shares the intimate viewpoint of an artist coping with her illness, while simultaneously being withdrawn, anxious, and impersonal.
Spleen
"In a hauntingly raw production of sound and lyrical gravity, an artist offers up her pain, her spleen full of the blackest bile, in hope that you may too purge yourself of this.”
Released November 20, 2020, Irene Wilde offers up her pain in Spleen. Within her first full-length album, the blackest bile is ever present. It is in the gut-wrenching honesty of the lyrics; it is in this damning sense of grief in her raw, minimalistic production. But still, despite this feeling of struggling to stay afloat in that thick, opaque liquid of heartache and sound, it pleads with you to try.
Pyrrhicae
“A woman frees herself of her own stigma as she dances around that self-hating pyre she once helped build.”
Pyrrhicae is not an album that jumps for joy and exclaims that all is good and fair. It is the complicated, bittersweet love story of trying. For that hope of life and love isn’t sequestered by any amount of madness. And to have been in the muck does not nullify you from being deserving of happiness. Pyrrhicae is Irene’s dance back to herself by finding the strength to be open & unshielded to the world so that she may experience that something other: the good too.