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A dark synth track about wellness panic, spirulina dread, and the moment your “cleanse” quietly gives up.
Calm voice, steady pulse, health anxiety turned into late-night confession.
#darkwave #depechemode #synthpop
ABOUT THE TRACK
“You Wear Guilt” is a dark synth / dark electro song that treats wellness culture like a quiet, private cult. The groove walks in mid-tempo, cool and unhurried, while the lyric lists detox rituals the way others list sins. Kombucha, kale, activated seeds — everything is supposed to fix you, and somehow everything makes you feel worse. Sonically it leans more toward dark-synth and dark-electro than classic synthpop gloss: low-end weight, dry beat, and a wide, shadowy backdrop. The sound stays serious and nocturnal, but the story is laced with dry humor rather than drama. It feels like Violator-era devotion accidentally wandered into a yoga retreat and refused to take off its boots. Serious sound, ridiculous purification schedule.
THE VOCALIST – Aaron Fielding
Aaron Fielding grew up in Brighton on the UK south coast, which might explain why his voice sounds like low tide at midnight — calm, slow, a little resigned. His delivery is low, controlled, and faintly amused, like someone reading out side effects in very small print. He never leans on the drama; he just lets the guilt sit there and breathe. Friends say he always brings his own mug of herbal tea “to avoid yet another cleanse offer.” Perfect company for a song about detox gone wrong.
LYRICAL THEMES
The lyric turns wellness rituals into a confessional booth. Lines like “You wear guilt like gluten in your bread” and “Your spirulina dread” frame self-optimization as a quiet obsession. It’s about shame disguised as discipline, and about people who are always one supplement away from forgiveness. The tone walks between earnest and funny: the words are serious, the situation isn’t. In the end, all that activated virtue just melts into steam.
COMPOSER INSIGHT
I kept hearing people talk about cleanses the way others talk about religion, so I wrote a hymn for it. The idea was simple: what if guilt moved from the church pew into the smoothie bar. Once “spirulina dread” appeared on the page, the rest of the lyric behaved like a confession list in lowercase. My job was to keep the music calm, steady, and a little amused while everything fermented in the background. If you’ve ever judged yourself over kale, this one is for you.
SOUND & STYLE
• Core: Dark Synth / Dark Electro / Darkwave
• Influences: Violator-era Depeche Mode, modern darkwave, minimal cold electronics
• Character: cool, hypnotic, sardonic, nocturnal
• Sound Image: steady mid-tempo beat, low male vocal, wide shadowy synth bed
• Tempo/Danceability: mid-tempo walk; club-friendly, headphone-approved
• Suitable for: night drives, dim-lit bars, post-gym overthinking, late scrolls through health forums
FOR FANS OF
• Depeche Mode — mid-tempo devotion with a dark modern edge
• Boy Harsher — slow magnetism and minimal darkwave pressure
• Cold Cave — icy textures with a steady, unblinking drive
• TR/ST — brooding low vocal over disciplined electronics
• She Past Away — stark darkwave pulse and shadowed melody
• Lebanon Hanover — deadpan delivery over cold, skeletal arrangements
• Clan of Xymox — layered melancholy wrapped around walking tempos
• Drab Majesty — shimmering gloom, ritualistic rhythm, distant voice
• The Soft Moon — tense, percussive darkness with nervous energy
• Covenant — precise club motion with a serious, nocturnal core
PRESS & CRITIC VOICES
“Turns wellness obsession into a calm, chrome-lit confessional — and never breaks a sweat.” (Velvet Transit)
“Like Violator getting lost in a detox retreat and quietly taking notes.” (Chrome Orchard)
“Deadpan, elegant, and uncomfortably relatable for anyone who has ever overdosed on kale.” (Aftertaste Audio)
FINAL NOTE
“You Wear Guilt” is a dark, mid-tempo synth track about health anxiety, quiet shame, and the strange comfort of rituals that don’t really work. Cool voice, steady beat, sly grin under all the steam. It’s music for people who read ingredient lists at midnight and still press play on another cleanse.
The guilt stays. The pulse keeps walking.
#newwave #ebm #darksynth #retrowave #minimalwave #coldwave #electronicmusic #industrial
LYRICS
You wear guilt
Like gluten in your bread
Like toxins in your bed
I can feel
Your spirulina dread
It’s fermenting in your head
And when your cleanse begins to fail
When kombucha turns to sin
Though you overdosed on kale
It was worth it
Bring your shame
Your activated seeds
And fall into my steam
Bring your shame
Your activated seeds
And fall into my steam
