In its vulnerability, Half feels like consolation, empathy and resignation. But more than that, it sounds like support and kindness and rallying for another round.
Drums pump like the steady march of just putting one foot in front of the other... those times where just surviving is enough. Piano notes ricochet like fleeting moments of hope, and gentle guitars strum along like vibrations in the dirt as life rushes by, before reaching a climax as, perhaps, surviving stops being enough.
Half is a song about things that divide us, and the choices we make in search of something beyond happiness.
Having worked within music for some time, Artemis Aether felt constrained by the usual bios and band photos. Preferring to retain a sense of mystery, they instead have opted for alternative creative forms for giving a sense of what they are about. This includes a a short story on their website, and the short poem below:
All fire and fury
All secret and surly
All baritone bravery
And heterogeneitySome settled on sombre
Some beat to the tame
Some spotted a contra
So called it a gameThey came for the fever,
The once broken preacher,
And the mask made to see her
Called Artemis Aether
Check out Half below: