Here’s a lo-fi double A-side single (or mini EP?) by 2 different artists, billing themselves as ‘Two friends sing songs about the transitions of life.’
Identify by A Day Without Love: This December 2025 release by Bryan Walker, whose ADWL includes oodles of releases going back to 2013 (on Bandcamp), is a concise acoustic number featuring a tambourine and Nick Parragio’s cheerfully triumphant trumpet in the outro.
Walker reflectively works through the challenges of various life changes like making friends, struggling to overcome depression, getting some radio airplay, finding oneself, and helping people to overcome their differences.
Death Becomes Me by MJ Bones: Marcelline Moon and Zack Fontanez, aka MJ Bones, deliver a haunting ukulele-based tune. Contrasting the cheerfulness of the ukulele with some downright fun and playfully depressing lyrics, Moon hits the spot! Not wanting to be lonely, Moon seems to have RFK Jr’s brainworms and threatens to give them a lethal dose of alcohol if her lover leaves: ‘And if you leave me / I’ll be drowning the worms in my brain.’
Is she alive and creepy or just a ghost having fun? ‘And if you see me / You just might’ve seen a ghost / I’m always dreaming of new ways / To haunt who I love most.’ I suppose at the end of the day, everyone is looking for sweet decay to comfort them!
Written by Greg Gobel
