Portland’s Coastlands are sharing their new track “Feeding,” which is released through Translation Loss Records. The song is also from their upcoming self-titled album Coastlands, which will be released on October 10.
Listen to the track here:
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and founder Jason Sissoyev shares his thoughts:
“It was the daily peeling back of ideals, belief systems, and identity. This album is the safe space we created to unlearn a lot of things and grow as musicians, artists, and humans.”
Jason adds:
“‘Feeding’ captures the slow suffocation of anxiety and the desperate comfort of denial. Smoke fills the room, fire smolders unseen, but there’s still a voice of ‘’I’ll be fine.’ It’s a song about the invisible weight we often carry, the rituals of hope we cling to, and the tension between breaking down completely and holding it together, the hazy dissonance between comfort and collapse.
“At its core, this song is about choosing to be better, especially when it’s hard.
“Smoke becomes a metaphor for anxiety or trauma, creeping in slowly, surrounding you, stealing breath and clarity. It’s unexpected, overwhelming, and difficult to escape. The repetition mimics a panic loop or obsessive thought cycle. Even after the smoke clears, the tension doesn’t. Breath remains tight. Sleep is lost. There’s guilt, shame, and also a resigned kind of endurance of going through the motions, not because you believe you’re OK, but because you need to believe it long enough to survive.”
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