The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. — James Baldwin

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time. —  Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

Sometimes a single blink of an eyelid is all that separates a dream, a nightmare, and reality, the sides of the triangle collapsing together to form a single-dimensional line on which the sleeper can only run from point A to point B and back again, repeating the same fight conversation every night, the only variable being the sidewalk and country of the confrontation.

See The Eye’s ‘Fake Fate’ describes the unreality of a partner who cheats on you because I can do whatever I want. Which is, unfortunately, the unhappy truth if one has suffered a soothing seduction, the soft words luring the listener into emotional sleep, gently excising the power either to resist or escape, before the trap door falls away and one is left dangling in the open air between the mattress from the floor.

You said you will
Act like you’ll do
Then you unreal
Now you untrue

I think this will
Everlasting
I am too lulled
To your fondling

‘Fake Fate’ is a gauzy travelougue, a splendiferous traipse through a throng of fuzzily reverberating chords that contravene to create a dreamy dynasty, a suite of melodic whispers. Opening with atonal scratches, the song seques into easy introspection. Listen as the lead guitar presages the vocal, offering the breadcrumbs that the singer can follow through the echoing forest. Don’t be fooled by the false ending near the three-minute mark; a beautiful instrumental is over the horizon.

Based in Tangerang, See The Eye self-describes as just some noise from Indonesia. Today’s track is See The Eye’s second song of the day; last year we featured ‘Shimmer’ from their six-song self-named EP. ‘Fake Fate’ appears on Evanescent Film, a split record featuring See The Eye and Taiwan’s Whale Done! The collection is available on cassette in limited numbers from Bombay Records.

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